QOTD

[randy_byers]

'I find that my students read and admire Asimov and Clarke in greater numbers than students ever have before, but when they write they steal fantasies from A.E. Van Vogt, who is unmistakably in the first stage, that of pure invention. They don't write A.E. Van Vogt stories; they use him for poems or for strange works that aren't, properly speaking

Comments

[kalimac]

"I find that my students read and admire Asimov and Clarke in greater numbers than students ever have before"

I would be really interested in knowing if a teacher of the kind of class Joanna was doing would still find that to be so today. I'm guessing not.

[randy_byers]

I'm guessing you're right. That was almost forty years ago when she wrote that.