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my life-long subscription to Analog
stands atop the complete collection
bequeathed by my maternal grand-father.
to sample the quality - click-on the covers
and begin to track every great science-fiction author.
gordon dickson seemed to write just for me
(one of the millions of boys
that felt mis-understood and un-appreciated
while harboring an unspoken certainty
that - one day - he would rescue the world
and be recognised as a hero).
of course,
any art-work by jeff jones
was necessary to sustain the heroic sense-of-life.
the artists from "the studio"
openly acknowledged the supremacy
of a recently-passed master.
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