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dropped, but this one is still in. Can we straighten this out one way or the other? If Prue has really been experimenting with her own body chemistry, I think we ought to have some hint of how she is reading out the results and what specifically she has learned or hoped to learn. If not, some other explanation of her collapse is needed, and it seems to me that Anti-S withdrawal is a dubious explanation. (Would it make sense to go off Anti-S and risk collapse and death, rather than stay on it with the penalty of slightly dulled faculties?) Either I am missing something, or there is a flaw in the logic of the story here. I would hate to see this novel, which is otherwise so good and so tight, get into print with such a hole in it. Please plug it up, or explain why it is not there.
I was interested in the sacred graphic as possible cover material, & if you don’t mind will add a note to the artist when I pass this along.
Best,
Damon
3/9/65
Dear Damon,
Many thanks, chum, for making me take another look at that chemical interplay thing. It has to be; it’s an integral part of the whole concept. These additions and fixes should bring the thing into focus. See what you think.
How’s Katie doing with Zen? Does she know Edwin Arnold’s Light of Asia ? Quote: Enter the path! There is no grief like Hate! No pains like passion, no deceit like sense. Unquote.
Hope the delay on all this didn’t inconvenience you. I’ve been up to my arse in a glossary and series of appendices for Chilton to use with its publication of Dune .
Warmest regards,
Frank
From the Damon Knight Correspondence collection, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries at Syracuse University.
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Ben Bova
(photo by Beth Gwinn)
The author of more than 120 futuristic novels and nonfiction books, Dr. Ben Bova has been involved in science and high technology since the very beginnings of the space age. President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, Dr. Bova received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, “for fueling mankind’s imagination regarding the wonders of outer space.”
In his various writings, Dr. Bova has predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, solar power satellites, the discovery of organic chemicals in interstellar space, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), the discovery of life on Mars, the advent of international peacekeeping forces, the discovery of ice on the Moon, electronic book publishing and zero-gravity sex.
Dr. Bova has taught science fiction at Harvard University and at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, where he has also directed film courses. He received his doctorate in education in 1996 from California Coast University, a master of arts degree in communications from the State University of New York at Albany (1987) and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Temple University (1954).
He has worked with film makers and television producers such as Woody Allen, George Lucas, and Gene Roddenberry.
He was editorial director of Omni magazine and, earlier, editor of Analog magazine. He received the Science Fiction Achievement Award (the “Hugo”) for Best Professional Editor six times. His 1994 short story, “Inspiration,” was nominated for the SFWA’s Nebula award. In 2001 Dr. Bova was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS). He received the 1996 Isaac Asimov Memorial Award; was the 1974 recipient of the E.E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction; the 1983 Balrog Award winner for Professional Achievement; the 1985 Inkpot Award recipient for his outstanding achievements in science fiction. In 2000, he was Guest of Honor at the 58th World Science Fiction Convention, Chicon2000.
The novel Mars began with my desire to write a completely realistic story about the first men and women to explore the Red
I was interested in the sacred graphic as possible cover material, & if you don’t mind will add a note to the artist when I pass this along.
Best,
Damon
3/9/65
Dear Damon,
Many thanks, chum, for making me take another look at that chemical interplay thing. It has to be; it’s an integral part of the whole concept. These additions and fixes should bring the thing into focus. See what you think.
How’s Katie doing with Zen? Does she know Edwin Arnold’s Light of Asia ? Quote: Enter the path! There is no grief like Hate! No pains like passion, no deceit like sense. Unquote.
Hope the delay on all this didn’t inconvenience you. I’ve been up to my arse in a glossary and series of appendices for Chilton to use with its publication of Dune .
Warmest regards,
Frank
From the Damon Knight Correspondence collection, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries at Syracuse University.
***
Ben Bova
(photo by Beth Gwinn)
The author of more than 120 futuristic novels and nonfiction books, Dr. Ben Bova has been involved in science and high technology since the very beginnings of the space age. President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, Dr. Bova received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, “for fueling mankind’s imagination regarding the wonders of outer space.”
In his various writings, Dr. Bova has predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, solar power satellites, the discovery of organic chemicals in interstellar space, virtual reality, human cloning, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), the discovery of life on Mars, the advent of international peacekeeping forces, the discovery of ice on the Moon, electronic book publishing and zero-gravity sex.
Dr. Bova has taught science fiction at Harvard University and at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, where he has also directed film courses. He received his doctorate in education in 1996 from California Coast University, a master of arts degree in communications from the State University of New York at Albany (1987) and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Temple University (1954).
He has worked with film makers and television producers such as Woody Allen, George Lucas, and Gene Roddenberry.
He was editorial director of Omni magazine and, earlier, editor of Analog magazine. He received the Science Fiction Achievement Award (the “Hugo”) for Best Professional Editor six times. His 1994 short story, “Inspiration,” was nominated for the SFWA’s Nebula award. In 2001 Dr. Bova was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS). He received the 1996 Isaac Asimov Memorial Award; was the 1974 recipient of the E.E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction; the 1983 Balrog Award winner for Professional Achievement; the 1985 Inkpot Award recipient for his outstanding achievements in science fiction. In 2000, he was Guest of Honor at the 58th World Science Fiction Convention, Chicon2000.
The novel Mars began with my desire to write a completely realistic story about the first men and women to explore the Red
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