Digest from urth@urth.net

Jeff Wilson · 03 Sep 2002, 03:31 · from urth-v0209.mbox · original

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From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
Subject: (urth) Re: Digest from  urth at urth.net
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 22:31:52 -0500
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urth at urth.net wrote:

>
> Subject:
> Re: (urth) Newt's main referent
> From:
> Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
> Date:
> Mon, 2 Sep 2002 01:16:54 -0400 (EDT)
> To:
> urth at urth.net
>
>
>On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Alice K. Turner wrote:
>
> =20
>
>>Good call, Nick. Some major convention (WorldCon, I guess) was held in, I
>>think, Atlanta in the 80s and Newt, for reasons that I think had to do wi=
th
>>Bruce Sterling, was the banquet speaker.
>>   =20
>>
>
>Also, at the time, Newt was one of the most famous science-fiction writers
>in America (along with William Shatner and, arguably, Stephen King).
>

Newt Gingrich co-authored _1945_ with professional SF writer William=20
Forstchen. It was published late in 1995, but portions including a sex=20
scene deleted from the final text were released during the 1994 election=20
season.  The convention appearance in Atlanta was most likely Dragon*Con=20
94 or 95.

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