Comments on: Remembering Robert P. Mills http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com Frederik Pohl Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:40:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert Silverberg http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/remembering-robert-p-mills/#comment-25204 Robert Silverberg Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:03:12 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?page_id=722#comment-25204 My story "The Man Who Never Forgot" was bought by Anthony Boucher, Mills' predecessor as editor, not by Mills. But I did deal with Mills as editor later on, and found him conscientious and precise in his choices of material. My story “The Man Who Never Forgot” was bought by Anthony Boucher, Mills’ predecessor as editor, not by Mills.

But I did deal with Mills as editor later on, and found him conscientious and precise in his choices of material.

]]> By: Joe Haldeman http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/remembering-robert-p-mills/#comment-4128 Joe Haldeman Mon, 25 May 2009 22:29:41 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?page_id=722#comment-4128 Bob was my agent for a few years after I sold my first novel (WAR YEAR, not sf). A nice guy, but not a great success for me. In 1974, he handed me a list of 18 editors who had rejected THE FOREVER WAR, and said he couldn't handle it. That night I found an editor at the SFWA cocktail party, Tom Dunne, who didn't do sf but liked the idea, and so handled it as a mainstream novel. Still in print after 35 years. Bob was my agent for a few years after I sold my first novel (WAR YEAR, not sf). A nice guy, but not a great success for me.

In 1974, he handed me a list of 18 editors who had rejected THE FOREVER WAR, and said he couldn’t handle it. That night I found an editor at the SFWA cocktail party, Tom Dunne, who didn’t do sf but liked the idea, and so handled it as a mainstream novel.

Still in print after 35 years.

]]> By: Roberta Gellis http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/remembering-robert-p-mills/#comment-2613 Roberta Gellis Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:21:23 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?page_id=722#comment-2613 Just want to say thank you for the article. Mills was my agent, but I didn't know much about him and I am delighted to learn more---and to learn in what exalted company I was as his client. Just want to say thank you for the article. Mills was my agent, but I didn’t know much about him and I am delighted to learn more—and to learn in what exalted company I was as his client.

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