alternate SF writers
Feb. 23rd, 2010 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sergebroomI had the TV on to the "Swing & Singers" music station on Sunday and, upon seeing a picture of an older Benny Goodman, I was reminded of A.E van Vogt. If I could write fiction, I'd ask "What if van Vogt had been a Big Band musician?"
Come to think of it, an excellent(1) subject for an anthology would be Alternate SF writers: what if this or that famous SF writer had gotten into some other ocupation? Heck, if, as TexAnne pointed out, the anthology "Alternate Presidents"(2) can have story "Ike at the Mike", wherein Eisenhower instead became a Big Band leader, and one where Fidel Castro instead turned into a baseball player in San Francisco, why not one where Asimov became acustomed costumed crimefighter? Heck, he looked like Clark Kent in his youth.
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(1) If I may humbly say so.
(2) Edited by Mike Resnick for Tor in 1992, which means it's out of print, and would you part with your copy?
Come to think of it, an excellent(1) subject for an anthology would be Alternate SF writers: what if this or that famous SF writer had gotten into some other ocupation? Heck, if, as TexAnne pointed out, the anthology "Alternate Presidents"(2) can have story "Ike at the Mike", wherein Eisenhower instead became a Big Band leader, and one where Fidel Castro instead turned into a baseball player in San Francisco, why not one where Asimov became a
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(1) If I may humbly say so.
(2) Edited by Mike Resnick for Tor in 1992, which means it's out of print, and would you part with your copy?
