Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: William Hyde Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The thing about finishing stuff Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 13:05:45 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <4ergnj9oc51hbvo8b4p2s8g2ehvoobt8pf@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 19:05:43 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f25d2699ebecbbed1b16db5dcd676895"; logging-data="609640"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/DyY4b54ESxch+aGySzqSD" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.19 Cancel-Lock: sha1:GNtYOWNBvFDw2qlhkcSbqytHSAw= X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250104-2, 1/4/2025), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean In-Reply-To: Tony Nance wrote: > On 1/4/25 12:50 AM, Robert Woodward wrote: >> In article , >>   ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan ) wrote: >> >>> In article , >>> Default User wrote: >>>> The Horny Goat wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 04:18:36 -0000 (UTC), "Default User" >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> A tour of the works of Walter Jon Williams. >>>>>> >>>>>> Back in the day, WJW used to post to RASFW. There were some >>>>>> hope-filled inquires about at third book in the Metropolitan >>>>>> series. It's too bad that didn't come about. >>>>> >>>>> I never saw those but one of the big names (Jerry Pournelle?) used to >>>>> write in alt.sysadmin.recovery - back when my main hard drive was 120 >>>>> mb :) >>>> >>>> There were some authors that would participate in RASWF back in the >>>> day. Dorothy of course, but she was out of the game by the time I came >>>> around. Lawrence (don't call me Larry) Watt-Evans was prominent for >>>> quite some time. Ryk E. Spoor AKA Sea Wasp was a group member before >>>> becoming an author, as I recall. >>>> >>>> No doubt I'm forgetting some. >>>> >>>> >>>> Brian >>> >>> Eric Flint would drop in from time to time for a couple of years(?). >> >> IIRC, Jo Walton posted here from time to time. >> > > As did Lois McMaster Bujold, Steve Miller, Matthew Hughes, and even > Damon Knight, way back when (with 1-2 annoying habits, iirc). John Christopher posted here for a short time. William Hyde