Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 22:31:52 -0500
From: Jeff Wilson 
Subject: (urth) Re: Digest from  urth@urth.net

urth@urth.net wrote:

>
> Subject:
> Re: (urth) Newt's main referent
> From:
> Michael Straight 
> Date:
> Mon, 2 Sep 2002 01:16:54 -0400 (EDT)
> To:
> urth@urth.net
>
>
>On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Alice K. Turner wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Good call, Nick. Some major convention (WorldCon, I guess) was held in, I
>>think, Atlanta in the 80s and Newt, for reasons that I think had to do with
>>Bruce Sterling, was the banquet speaker.
>>    
>>
>
>Also, at the time, Newt was one of the most famous science-fiction writers
>in America (along with William Shatner and, arguably, Stephen King).
>

Newt Gingrich co-authored _1945_ with professional SF writer William 
Forstchen. It was published late in 1995, but portions including a sex 
scene deleted from the final text were released during the 1994 election 
season.  The convention appearance in Atlanta was most likely Dragon*Con 
94 or 95.

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