Les souvenirs marquants des auteurs
Posté : mer. mars 24, 2010 10:23 am
Le site Sf Signal a posé la question suivante à plusieurs auteurs : What are some of your fondest memories of your life as a writer?.
C.J.Cherryh, Michael Bishop, Mike Resnick, David Brin ou Gene Wolfe ont répondu.
Voici la réponse de Mike Resnick :
# Receiving a fan letter about Ivory from Arthur C. Clarke. It's been 22 years and I'm still chuffed.
# Jack Williamson showing up for my first Worldcon reading, and telling me to keep at it, that I had a future in this field. He was the first pro who noticed.
# The first Hugo I won. (I was sure I couldn't possibly beat that field, and certainly not with my very first nomination.)
# My first Guest of Honor gig at a convention. I felt like I'd arrived.
# My first invite to an overseas convention.
# Seeing 9 of "my" discoveries make the Campbell ballot over the years
# Being invited by Isaac Asimov to contribute a story to Foundation's Friends.
# The first (and every subsequent) time I've seen a costume based on my work, heard a filksong based on my work, or seen a film based on my work.
# Collaborating, over the years, with 42 partners. What could be nicer than bonding with a friend and sharing a paycheck?
# Seeing Fiona Kelleghan's massive 475-page bibliography of my work
# Winning the biggest-money prize in France (well, in the world, actually) for The Dark Lady, a dozen years after it appeared here and sank like a stone
# Finding out from Locus that I'm the all-time leading award winner for short fiction. (I'd always thought of myself as a novelist, who just wrote short stories for fun.)
# Meeting C. L. Moore.
# Making lifelong friendships with my peers.
# And a memorable if not as especially fond one: the first gray-haired guy to come up and tell me he'd been reading me since he was a kid. (How the hell did that happen? I was 23 just last week.)
C.J.Cherryh, Michael Bishop, Mike Resnick, David Brin ou Gene Wolfe ont répondu.
Voici la réponse de Mike Resnick :
# Receiving a fan letter about Ivory from Arthur C. Clarke. It's been 22 years and I'm still chuffed.
# Jack Williamson showing up for my first Worldcon reading, and telling me to keep at it, that I had a future in this field. He was the first pro who noticed.
# The first Hugo I won. (I was sure I couldn't possibly beat that field, and certainly not with my very first nomination.)
# My first Guest of Honor gig at a convention. I felt like I'd arrived.
# My first invite to an overseas convention.
# Seeing 9 of "my" discoveries make the Campbell ballot over the years
# Being invited by Isaac Asimov to contribute a story to Foundation's Friends.
# The first (and every subsequent) time I've seen a costume based on my work, heard a filksong based on my work, or seen a film based on my work.
# Collaborating, over the years, with 42 partners. What could be nicer than bonding with a friend and sharing a paycheck?
# Seeing Fiona Kelleghan's massive 475-page bibliography of my work
# Winning the biggest-money prize in France (well, in the world, actually) for The Dark Lady, a dozen years after it appeared here and sank like a stone
# Finding out from Locus that I'm the all-time leading award winner for short fiction. (I'd always thought of myself as a novelist, who just wrote short stories for fun.)
# Meeting C. L. Moore.
# Making lifelong friendships with my peers.
# And a memorable if not as especially fond one: the first gray-haired guy to come up and tell me he'd been reading me since he was a kid. (How the hell did that happen? I was 23 just last week.)