Whitley Strieber To Be Awarded Special Hugo
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Susan Tankersley, spokesperson for the WSFS, explained the situation. “Through such books as Communion, Transformation, Majestic, and The Secret School, Whitley Strieber has managed to present concepts once unique to science fiction and turn them into cultural icons. Thanks to him, you simply cannot hear the phrase ‘alien contact’ without thinking the complementary phrase ‘rectal probe’. Admittedly, he’s also thrown the SETI movement back fifty years in the process, but them’s the breaks.”
Presenting the Hubbard at ConJose are South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who had nothing but praise for Strieber’s contributions to popular culture. “If not for Whitley’s anal fixation, we’d have never been able to come up with that first episode of South Park, ‘Cartman Gets An Anal Probe’, and without that, we’d still be waiting tables in Burbank,” said Parker, taking a break from filming of Orgazmo Goes To Salt Lake City, the sequel to his 1999 superhero film. “Trey and I feel that we’d never have managed to squeeze that initial $16 million contract for the first two years of South Park without that episode, and we wouldn’t have thought of it until we borrowed Whitley’s comment ‘Why does everything around here involve something going into or coming out of my ass?’ Now we have a multimillion-dollar entertainment empire, and we owe it all to him. Well, not really: if he tries to get any of this money, we’ll have security break his legs, but we want to let him know how much we owe him in general.”
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