It Came from the ICFA!1998
Recorded on a digital camera and downloaded to a portable computer, these snapshots are appropriately 'untouched by human hands.' After all, folks, this is The Future.
Permanent Special Guest Brian Aldiss, without whom no session is complete, learns about the mysterious A.B.D. degree.
DATELINE: SUMATRA - -
The Straub Expedition leaves today, travelling into the remote jungles in search of the fabled Giant Rat. He would have been on his way already but for the strange behavior of the dog in the night-time.
Of course, the most important thing at the ICFA was my wife's paper on Zelazny's minor characters. Heh heh. L-R Olena Saciuk, Chair Rich Erlich, Donna Ross Hooley, and David Ketterer.
Rhonda Brock-Servais got her Master's here at Georgia Southern and her thesis on Peter Straub is in the University library right next to his novels. Naturally we were interested to see what Rhonda, now at U. of South Carolina, would come up with this year for her fourth ICFA paper on Straub, and she was ready and waiting with a paper on Straub's Gothicism. Edwin Casebeer examined Straub's Gothic Heroines and critic/film scholar Douglas Winter delivered a review. L-R Ellen Datlow(?), Casebeer, Brock-Servais, Chair Bernadette Bosky, a vigilant Peter Straub, and Winter.
Straub rolls up his sleeves before taking a whack at responding to the panelists' efforts to deconstruct or interpret him.
Rhonda Brock-Servais explains a point during cross-examination as Edwin Casebeer looks on.
Peter Straub pauses from his labors to pose for a quick snap poolside with my wife, shortly after the return of his Sumatran Expedition.
Donna poses across the canal from the Hilton, enjoying the walking trails and the warm weather.
Another view of the canal as we crossed.
As soon as they saw my cool t-shirt, they said I could pick all the oranges I wanted.
See, it pays to dress for success in today's modern, fast-paced World of the Future.
So ends my '98 version of What I Did On My Summer Vacation.
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