[Seruzawa]

We own most of the IA SF mags too. It was pretty good I thought until IA croaked and it went down the sexual content path. I used to have great fun reading IA’s letter feedback. He sure was one arrogant cuss.

He wrote some excellent pioneering stories that I grew up on so I’ll always thank him for that. But he had so many screwy social ideas that he seemed like a demented idiot sometimes. His hatred of Reagan was clinically psychopathic.

He was a great writer but, alas, someone who would starve to death in a room full of jars of peanut butter and loaves of bread.

[kaylar]

I particularly enjoyed it when IA would go off the deep end, and Poul Anderson would step in and try to make him see the light. One thing in favor of IA : He did allow those who disagreed with his (asinine)opinions about a OWG , etc, to contradict him in the letters page. Poul Anderson....When a (very) young writer, he wrote some stories about the UN taking over the world and forming a OWG-and this is presented as a GOOD thing. The hero of the stories is a UN operative who fights UN foes, including Americans who believe in national sovereignty. Anderson made a speedy recovery from this mental illness, and spent the rest of his writing career trying to make up for this embarrassment. We lost a good man when we lost PA (but at least we still have Orson Scott Card.)