On Sunday, March 26, 2000 5:40 PM EvMick EvMick@aol.com wrote:
> I'm a rarity even among book readers.....I read Science Fiction. Not
> fantasy....not westerns....not mystery.....(although they will do in a
> pinch....ANY book is better than No book).....so when they ask me what I'm
> reading....it gets puzzeled responses...
>
> To make a long story short.....me and this other guy stood in the middle
of
> the parking lot for maybe an hour......in that time I gave him a crash
> course on a few extropian topics (orbital towers, cloneing,
> uploading.....etc.).....all from a SF vantage.
>
> Toward the end there he was looking a little bit like a deer in the
> headlites....
>
> He's hooked though.....infected.
That freaking cool! It's more productive than just telling jokes.:) (I
worked for a trucking company a few years ago and I knew a few truckers who
were readers, though most were not. (Heck, most people are not! I know a
lot of people who work in my current venue who do not read anything for
pleasure.) One trucker always had a novel with him. His son was an English
major at a local college... That people were surprised at this only shows
how powerful the stereotypes are.)
EvMick might also consider like keeping an extra copy of something really
accessible to all -- like _The First Immortal_ -- to give away. I would
not, if I did this, act like a salesman with free samples. Instead, I would
just always have a copy in my truck and pass it along. At about $7 a pop,
it's not too expensive and the novel itself, though not the best in terms of
new ideas per page, is probably good for anyone, even if the reader is not
all that interested in science fiction.
My two bits!
Daniel Ust
http://mars.superlink.net/neptune/
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