Re: Nebula Finalists 2015

The Horny Goat wrote:

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:15:09 -0500, William Hyde
<wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
 

But the longest gap between buying a book and reading it would be in my
case 24 years, the book being De Camp's "The Ancient Engineers", which I
devoured on a Halifax-Fairbanks trip, cursing myself for not having read
it earlier.

 How did you ever make that trip? Not counting flights to Europe the
longest I ever did was Vancouver-Corner Brook NF and THAT was flying
Vancouver-Toronto then driving the rest.
 

As I recall it went Halifax-Toronto-Vancouver - Seattle - Anchorage- Fairbanks. With a brief stop in Winnipeg.
The trip up  the coast occurred in clear air conditions that, according to my hosts, almost never happen. It was spectacular, especially Mt Logan.
I was told by virtually everyone I met that I was too late for the Northern lights, but they put on a spectacular display that night. I was almost too tired to see them by then, but I ventured out - we rarely see much of a display in Toronto or Halifax.
Combine  that with the people I met and the entertaining stories of Fairbanks itself, and it was a marvelous trip.
William Hyde