Frederik Pohl et Robert Heinlein, part 2

[jerome]

Frederik Pohl a posté la deuxième partie de son article sur Working with Robert A. Heinlein.

Extrait :
"Along the way, Robert Heinlein and I had got to be pretty good friends. We shared some minor vices, for example in those days smoking the same brand of cigarettes (cork-tipped Raleighs, and we both saved the coupons that came with every pack), and we both abhorred each other’s political views but had some good times arguing about them. We didn’t get together very often because the Heinleins were West Coasters and I was resolutely East, but every now and then our paths would cross.

When the Heinleins came to New York, they preferred to stay in a mall but spiffy hotel somewhere near Tudor City, and on occasion asked me over for an evening of smoking, drinking and amiably criticizing each other’s world views. (Well, usually it was amiable.) And there were evenings I remember at places like Tulsa and Grand Rapids and that wonderful circular house that the Heinleins built on a gorgeous, if rattlesnake-infested, piece of California land when Ginny’s health no longer let her live halfway up a Colorado mountain. Now and then, though, a shadow did fall."

[Fred Combo]

Sympa, le blog de Fred Pohl.
Il donne même quelques conseils aux p'tits jeunes, qui ressemblent assez à ceux de Heinlein. Ca doit vraiment être la bonne méthode !