On Stephen R. Donaldson's Website. . .
. . . and by "on" SRD's website, I mean that I personally am on his website!
So, a cool thing that happened. I know SRD, slightly, from ICFA 39 -- he goes every year, and in 2018 I foolishly gave a paper on him during the conference. He came, of course, and we chatted briefly afterward. Although Martina insists that I didn't embarrass myself, I'm less sure. It certainly felt incredibly weird to actually talk with someone whose books have been a mainstay of my life since the 7th grade,*** and I'm not good with normal chit-chat, so I exited the situation perhaps too hurriedly. Yet he, personally, was quite the gentleman -- and "gentleman" is certainly the right word here; I've rarely encountered who radiated courtesy in quite the same way. At any rate, before I chickened out, he gave me his e-mail, we exchanged a few messages, and that was that for a while.
Then, last August, my article on SRD, feminism, and sexed violence was published in Extrapolation, and I e-mailed him to let know him. He thanked me. A few days later, though, he messaged back . . . wondering if he could put my article on his website (!). Now, there's a few other scholarly works on there, by W. A. Senior and Benjamin Laskar, but I was floored. I checked with the publisher -- no copyright violation so long as certain conditions were met. So, poof: it's up there now. Check out my article on SRD's website.
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*** Incidentally, how many 12-year-olds, honestly, should be reading Lord Foul's Bane? (And you know the scene I'm talking about.) That was my childhood for you, though.
So, a cool thing that happened. I know SRD, slightly, from ICFA 39 -- he goes every year, and in 2018 I foolishly gave a paper on him during the conference. He came, of course, and we chatted briefly afterward. Although Martina insists that I didn't embarrass myself, I'm less sure. It certainly felt incredibly weird to actually talk with someone whose books have been a mainstay of my life since the 7th grade,*** and I'm not good with normal chit-chat, so I exited the situation perhaps too hurriedly. Yet he, personally, was quite the gentleman -- and "gentleman" is certainly the right word here; I've rarely encountered who radiated courtesy in quite the same way. At any rate, before I chickened out, he gave me his e-mail, we exchanged a few messages, and that was that for a while.
Then, last August, my article on SRD, feminism, and sexed violence was published in Extrapolation, and I e-mailed him to let know him. He thanked me. A few days later, though, he messaged back . . . wondering if he could put my article on his website (!). Now, there's a few other scholarly works on there, by W. A. Senior and Benjamin Laskar, but I was floored. I checked with the publisher -- no copyright violation so long as certain conditions were met. So, poof: it's up there now. Check out my article on SRD's website.
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*** Incidentally, how many 12-year-olds, honestly, should be reading Lord Foul's Bane? (And you know the scene I'm talking about.) That was my childhood for you, though.
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