-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199501091628.KAA00456@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, you wrote:
If you *really* want to send him fan mail, I recommend sending it in paper form to his publisher. First, this allows him to better handle fan mail in batches. Second, this gives his publisher some indication of interest in his work, and maybe gets him a better deal on his next book.
And if you *really* want to send Vernor Vinge fan mail, and you *can't* *stand* the notion of sending it via snailmail, you can send email to his publisher: pnh@tor.com . That's the email address for Patrick Nielsen Hayden, senior editor at Tor Books. Patrick will know what to do with it. (n.b.: I don't think Patrick is actually Vinge's editor; I think [but am not sure] that Vinge's editor is Jim Frenkel, who oddly enough is married to Vernor Vinge's ex-wife, Joan Vinge.) (Cypherpunks Duncan Frissell and Sandy Sandfort may recall Patrick from his salad days in San Francisco, when he was part of the crew which took over FREEDOM TODAY and FREE MARKET REPORTER magazines in 1978.) | PROOF-READER, n: A malefactor who atones for Alan Bostick | making your writing nonsense by permitting abostick@netcom.com | the compositor to make it unintelligible. finger for PGP public key | Ambrose Bierce, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Key fingerprint: | 50 22 FB 46 41 A3 17 9D F7 33 FF E1 4E 1C 89 79 +legal_kludge=off -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQB1AgUBLxGaoeVevBgtmhnpAQFYxQL+JqH6lhYdbhZ5uxaQS8G6dnvtLAZEt49b Ye/jJG1xpQGqsLu1wV3pCPDvo+/MUHF6dX8Jt/VaSy4aAkFz3dqm3n9btjWBwvpt LHQjBqwg70PAyiiJ9/MdYj9pUCeurFqr =5A8z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----