[TheForge] Re: Harlan the Dwarf / Michael Horgan

[Michael Horgan]

Yes, I know/ have met Harry Turtledove many times, Both online, on the old 
GEnie network, and at numerous Science Fiction Conventions.  I have also 
met Harry Harrison, another author, at a Westercon SFconvention back in the 
early 70's.

>Michael,
>I enjoyed reading a set of Viking era novels by Harry Harrison, AKA Harry 
>Turtledove.  The central charactor starts out as a medieval blacksmith.
>"The Hammer and the Cross"
>Did you really meet / know Harry Turtledove ?
>Dann Johnson
>Michael Horgan writes:
>>Harry Turtledove told me how this works...  Somebody reads the book... 
>>does a 10 page synopsis, and shops it to an agent, who takes a one page 
>>abridgement of the synopsis to the producer who sells the idea and then 
>>takes the abridgement, gives it to a screen writer to make a script...
>>The author gets paid, but has ,usually, nothing to do with the movie....
>>This is how David Brin's excellent book, "The Postman" became Kevin 
>>Costner's "The Postman"... an ok movie.
>><SNIP>
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