Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: George R.R. Martin

Posted by Parks, Raymond on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/George-R-R-Martin-tp7580282p7580288.html

On Jul 20, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Steve Smith wrote:

I also hosted a series of events at LANL during the 1998 Nebula awards...  At that event I even met a woman (SF/F Author who claimed to have accidentally started the Society for Creative Anachronism when she invited all of her friends and aquaintences and colleagues to her house in Berkeley to celebrate her recent Masters in Medieval Studies and they all showed up in period costume and weaponry....   I can't remember her name now and could not corroborate her story.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley - and, yes, she did start the SCA.  I've got a scanned image of that event announcement.

Steve (S.M.) Stirling is another prolific Santa Fe author.  

  My personal favourite of his is "The Peshawar Lancers".

Walter Jon Williamson is another of my favorites...   His work touches on Cyberpunk (HardWired in particular) but manages to be very highbrow technically despite the lowbrow tropes such as "Space Opera".   I haven't seen anything from him lately, but I'm sure he's still working…

  He used to play in the SCA - he was a founding member of the Barony of al-Barran.  He also runs great RPGs according to those who played (not me) in them.

Other SF names from the immediate are that might also be recognized include:  Fred Saberhagen, Sage Walker, Patty Nagel, Sally Gwylan … 

  I almost bought Stephen Donaldson's (Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) house when I first moved here in 1987.  Great passive solar but it had a tiny kitchen - the trend back then was for outdoor cooking, causing my wife to complain, "How do I bake a cake on a barbecue grill?"

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