Comments on: Speculative Fiction Authors Considered As High School Students

By: Benjamin Rosenbaum

Benjamin Rosenbaum — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:24:20 +0000

Under the bleachers with the government cheese brigade…

I hadn’t seen this… ……

By: …For Loud Values of “Quiet,” Anyway [Uncertain Principles] · New York Articles

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:40:32 +0000

[...] Granades has a survey of current SF, done in the form of a school walk-through with new principal Michael Capobianco (who won the SFWA election discussed earlier this year). It’s pretty amusing if you know the [...]

By: Eleanor M Lindsay

Eleanor M Lindsay — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:54:50 +0000

my sister forwarded this – now I gotta go find some more books! (and I Do Not Have Room!) I do wish you had included the class clowns. also, my daughter said there were three groups in her school, the preppies, the druggies, and the rowdies…
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By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:35:11 +0000

Bravo!

By: Alex Jay Berman

Alex Jay Berman — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:55:31 +0000

It’s a shame that the Art and Music programs were phased out of the school curriculum; how often did we hear rousing rounds sung by Messrs. DeCandido, Heck, de Lint, and Ms. Bull (those latter two often lunching with Mr. Gaiman’s table).
… and oh, yes; there was that lanky fellow who went by the unfortunate sobriquet “Spider”, as I recall …

And were it not for their constant defacing–however lovely it may have been–of walls, desks, and in one memorable instance a faculty member, Art students such as James Owen, Larry Dixon, and others did much to beautify this school’s halls. And my, but what a crowd they did attract! Messrs. Moore, Ellis, David and so many more were always to be found chattering on at the Art table as drawings and paintings took shape all around them …

We have, of course, had our, ahem, “problem children”. So often, the quickening of blood and the rush of hormones in young students’ bodies leads them to an unhealthy fascination with all things sexual, usually to their detriment. the deportment Mr. Norman, Ms. Rice, and several others earned them expulsions despite repeated warnings. Young Ms. Carey has eluded such a fate due to her high marks, as has young Ms. Scott, but I fear that Ms. Hamilton may be drifting away from us. Sad, sad …

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...For Loud Values of "Quiet," Anyway [Uncertain Principles] · Articles — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:58:44 +0000

By: John Ringo

John Ringo — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:29:51 +0000

I was a much rejected geek in HS and except around close friends rather quiet.

Now get me around friends and I was more, ahem, talkative.

By: Pat Lundrigan

Pat Lundrigan — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:57:07 +0000

I’m surprised Miss Atwood wasn’t alone and talking to a plate of fried calimari.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:41:11 +0000

Nalo, feel free to correct! This essay is like one of those “top 100 SF books” lists: half of the fun is disagreeing with the author. We talked about where Toby would eventually go over on his blog. Maybe we can get Buckell added to the “no really, we’re diverse!” cant next to your name.

And if we add a Canadian table, I’ll have a place for Robert J. Sawyer.

By: CF

CF — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:55:07 +0000

Of course Devid Levine doesn’t get mentioned.

He’s from Oregon — “the place where men go to disappear from history”….