Comments on: Doc “Skylark” Smith http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/12/doc-skylark-smith/ Frederik Pohl Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:40:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Walsh http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/12/doc-skylark-smith/#comment-43331 Michael Walsh Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:09:03 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1749#comment-43331 Egads! Need more Smith! How about how you managed to land \"Skylark Duquesne\" ? Egads! Need more Smith!

How about how you managed to land \"Skylark Duquesne\" ?

]]> By: Christian Nau http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/12/doc-skylark-smith/#comment-14901 Christian Nau Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:00:12 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1749#comment-14901 I loved the lensmen series when I was first introduced to them around the age of 15. I actually have an embarrassing memory of me writing up, very earnestly, a description of the physics used in the lensmen universe for a 9th grade physics assignment. For example, some of the ideas I wrote about were: inertial dampers, multiples of the speed of light, teardrop designs because at those speeds even spaceships needed to be aerodynamic. I don't know what my teacher thought of it, but I didn't score very well on the assignment. I loved the lensmen series when I was first introduced to them around the age of 15. I actually have an embarrassing memory of me writing up, very earnestly, a description of the physics used in the lensmen universe for a 9th grade physics assignment. For example, some of the ideas I wrote about were: inertial dampers, multiples of the speed of light, teardrop designs because at those speeds even spaceships needed to be aerodynamic. I don’t know what my teacher thought of it, but I didn’t score very well on the assignment.

]]> By: Stephen Lucchetti http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/12/doc-skylark-smith/#comment-13480 Stephen Lucchetti Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:51:11 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1749#comment-13480 Doc never had anything to do with Spudnuts BUT he did work for Dawn Donuts our of Jackson Michigan for a number of years. Somewhere I've got a FAX copy of at least one of his the recipe cards that he reused when sending book comments to a friend. -- Stephen Lucchetti Ypsilanti, Michigan Doc never had anything to do with Spudnuts BUT he did work for Dawn Donuts our of Jackson Michigan for a number of years. Somewhere I’ve got a FAX copy of at least one of his the recipe cards that he reused when sending book comments to a friend.

– Stephen Lucchetti
Ypsilanti, Michigan

]]> By: Robert Nowall http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/12/doc-skylark-smith/#comment-13104 Robert Nowall Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:21:15 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1749#comment-13104 “Robert A. Heinlein: Volume 1 (1907-1949): Learning Curve.” Great! I've been waiting for a biography of Heinlein for years now. (But I'm suspicious of multi-volume biographies unless they're published all at once---Robert Caro promised the next volume of his Lyndon Johnson sometime in the next century, and the second volume of of Gary Gidding's biography of Bing Crosby apparently crashed in a publishing dispute.) “Robert A. Heinlein: Volume 1 (1907-1949): Learning Curve.”

Great! I’ve been waiting for a biography of Heinlein for years now. (But I’m suspicious of multi-volume biographies unless they’re published all at once—Robert Caro promised the next volume of his Lyndon Johnson sometime in the next century, and the second volume of of Gary Gidding’s biography of Bing Crosby apparently crashed in a publishing dispute.)

]]> By: Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/12/doc-skylark-smith/#comment-13048 Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:27:06 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1749#comment-13048 Robert Nowall writes: "Very few SF writers will ever have massive doorstopper biographies in every library and bookstore." Speaking of which, William Patterson's biography of Heinlein is due out from Tor this year-- half of it, at least. Amazon gives the title as "Robert A. Heinlein: Volume 1 (1907-1949): Learning Curve." Publication date is listed as 17 August 2010. No word on when the second volume might be published. Robert Nowall writes:

“Very few SF writers will ever have massive doorstopper biographies in every library and bookstore.”

Speaking of which, William Patterson’s biography of Heinlein is due out from Tor this year– half of it, at least. Amazon gives the title as “Robert A. Heinlein: Volume 1 (1907-1949): Learning Curve.”

Publication date is listed as 17 August 2010. No word on when the second volume might be published.

]]> By: Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/12/doc-skylark-smith/#comment-13047 Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:21:59 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=1749#comment-13047 \"His particular specialty was in food chemistry, with particular attention to the chemistry of the doughnut, but wheaten edibles of all kinds were within his purview.\" The late fan who went by the name \"Gharlane of Eddore\" told me that he once heard Doc Smith speak at an SF convention. Someone asked Doc about his favorite achievement in the food-chemistry business. He was proudest of a formula he\'d invented for a doughnut mix made from potato flour. So his purview extended beyond mere wheaten edibles... (I was led to investigate whether Doc had any connection with a chain of potato-doughnut shops named Spudnuts. The answer turned out to be \"no,\" but that\'s a story for another time.) \"His particular specialty was in food chemistry, with particular attention to the chemistry of the doughnut, but wheaten edibles of all kinds were within his purview.\"

The late fan who went by the name \"Gharlane of Eddore\" told me that he once heard Doc Smith speak at an SF convention. Someone asked Doc about his favorite achievement in the food-chemistry business.

He was proudest of a formula he\’d invented for a doughnut mix made from potato flour.

So his purview extended beyond mere wheaten edibles…

(I was led to investigate whether Doc had any connection with a chain of potato-doughnut shops named Spudnuts. The answer turned out to be \"no,\" but that\’s a story for another time.)

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