Re: SMITH'S earliest novella/short story
Posted by:
calonlan (IP Logged)
Date: 26 October, 2008 02:43PM
Black Diamonds was written at about age 14, and the first issue by Hippocampus from Joshi's research at Brown was missing 3 pages which, lo, were in my collection of manuscripts - with the publication of Sword of Zagan, those pages were appended to fill that gap, and I believe the book has been re=issued with those properly inserted. --
To any of you who teach or have taught - wouldn't a student like Smith have been a joy to have? Imagine a student who loves to read AND WRITE, and furthermore, is willing to try. In my lifetime I have encountered two; one was a senior when I met him, the other a freshman who was driving the librarian nuts checking out a half dozen books at a time and actually reading them to return them a week later - this kid introduced me to Dahlgren - and knew that it referred to Grendal - amazing.