Harry Harrison, Gentleman Atheist, RIP

[jeff_duntemann]

65,000 words. This is still hard. But I am damned well going to make it work.

One reason I will make it work is a man who left this world today for other worlds, not that he was any stranger to other worlds. Harry Harrison is one of those guys who isn't appreciated as much as he deserves, for reasons that escape me. Most people know of him for

Comments

[johnridley]

I am adding everything you mentioned to my reading list (insofar as I will be able to actually lay hands on them). I confess that though I'd heard of a few of them, I was pretty solidly in the "has only actually read the Stainless Steel Rat series" camp. Not through any conscious decision to not read them, just due to a wealth of choices and nobody telling me "you must read these."

And here's to people of all kinds who simply live their lives the way they feel is right and respect other's rights to live in their own. I wouldn't ask for more.

[apostle_of_eris]

The Technicolor Time Machine was serialized in Analog (as you may recall). There was a cover of a standard Viking storming asore from a longboat with his battle ax in one hand and a box of Wheaties and a bottle of Jack Daniels in the other.
Someone did that for the masquerade at the following Worldcon . . . and Harry ran up from the audience and took a flying leap onto the stage, with a glass to check the versimilitude of the costume.

[apostle_of_eris]

Tangentially, I'm with the guy who said "Don't tell me you're a Christian, let me figure it out." Matthew 6 may be the only bit in the New Testament I can cite chapter and verse.

I have a personal hypothesis I promote: just because people use the same words doesn't mean they mean the same things by them, or are using them to label the same feelings.
I can't see into your heart, but I can see your hands.