Les souvenirs marquants des auteurs

[jerome]

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.)

[Hoêl]

Le souvenir de Cherryh sur la façon dont elle pensait être insuffisamment élégante pour la cérémonie des Hugos prend toute sa saveur quand on se reporte à ce que raconte Spinrad dans Il est parmi nous sur les délires vestimentaires des conventions américainnes ...