People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
― Bill Watterson, The Calvin And Hobbes: Tenth Anniversary Book
Anniversary Project Joe Haldeman1975
The Plain Facts
- Length:10 Pages
- Genre:Science Fiction
- Category:Time Travel
- Characters
- Setting
- America
Future Beings1950 Humans
Three PhasingBob
Pa of ThreeSarah
Future Million Years Ahead1951
So, what's It About Man?
Earthlings, celebrate an anniversary of the printed word, in a future millions of years from now. First Words
"HIS NAME IS Three-phasing and he is bald and wrinkled, slightly over one meter tall, large-eyed, toothless and all bones and skin, sagging pale skin shot through with traceries of delicate blue and red."pg 190Last Words
"He tossed the battle away, the gesture immediately making him feel stupid, and followed her. Later that night she apologized, saying she didn't know what had gotten into her."pg 200Favorite Quote
- The book he is reading is a facsimile of an early edition of Goethe's Faust. The nervous angular Fraktur letters goose-ste across pages of paper-thin platinum. pg 190
- The sand turns hard under her feet.pg 194
- He dips into Bob's mind finding things she (his girlfriend) is better off not knowing. pg 198
- Compose the world before setting out to tell the twists.
- Joe Haldeman has written for a number of anthologies.
- Born 1943 in Oklahoma City; grew up mostly in Anchorage, Alaska and Bethesda, Maryland.
- A frequent diary writer on S.F.F. Net News. Very interesting posts here.
- xenophobia: "reacting to the strange with fear instead of delight."
- time casting: like fishing but fishing in time for things in the stream.
What I Learned About Writing
Turnip Tips
Favorite Words Used