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The Odd Emperor
http://blackfish-enterprises.com/oddempire/index.htm

He replys;

>
> Glad to have provided you with so much amusement.
> While you are working up your nefarious plot to
> destroy me, could you answer one question?
>
> Are you going to be at Dragoncon this year? If so
then
> you're in luck! We can meet face to face. Want to?
> that might be fun!
>

I don't know yet--I was there year, before last.

Did we meet at that time?

--Mike

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Holy smoke! Short and polite!
And I reply;

No, I doubt it. I haven’t been to one of those things
since Dragoncon was the called The Atlanta Fantasy
Fair. I’m thinking about going up this year however.
I’m curious to see how the science fiction scene has
changed over the last couple of decades.

I wasn’t kidding about writing a couple of novels. I
got the writing bug late last year and cranked a novel
out and about seven short subjects in the space of
around four months. I have four short stories in the
submission train right now. I’m papering a wall with
rejection notices. I’m working on the sequel to novel
#one and expect to have the third novel written by
December of 2003.

I’m not a “frustrated writer”, not yet anyway. I’m
having too much fun producing this stuff. Even if they
sit in a shoebox covered in rejection slips I won’t be
dismayed too much. I’m fully aware of how difficult it
is to get into the business. At the same time I don’t
intend to pay someone to publish my work, they will
either stand on their own merits or not at all. Either
way, I get some satisfaction out of just doing it and
the rest, can take care of itself.

Incidentally, I’ve read some of your writing over the
last couple of hours. You have some interesting points
of view, kind reminds me of Shaver’s stuff. I can’t
say that I agree with your conclusions very much. You
seem to be relating a bunch of urban legend and
couching it as fact.

Now there is nothing wrong with doing that but
realize that most people are going to (and have) just
reject(ed) you out of hand.

Have your read “The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries”?
(W.Y Evans-Wentz, Citadel, New York NY. ISBN
0-8065-1160-5) That stuff has been around for a very
long time and is probably related to modern ideas of
UFOs and other phenomena. Whether this stuff is
actually related to aliens or subterranean Detrimental
Robots is quite another thing. One would have to
really look at the evidence, and good evidence is very
hard to find! My family even has stories of strange
caverns on property that we own, but when one tries to
actually find the caves they are conveniently missing.
That seems to be the nature of the beast, if one looks
too hard the evidence becomes nonsense.

Anyway, have a good night! Have fun destroying me
tomorrow.

>I don't know yet--I was there year, before last.

> Did we meet at that time?

--Mike

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Sincerely;

The Odd Emperor
http://blackfish-enterprises.com/oddempire/index.htm

How will he respond to this?