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I've known Bob (Robert Charles) Wilson for over 35 years. Little did I expect when I met him for the first time at a local SF club that he'd go on to becomming one of the two or three best known SF writers in Canada in the next century. It was hard enough to believe someday I'd live in "the next century".
This year Bob and his wife Sharry attended Nippon, the Worldcon in Japan. They visited the local attractions, including the museum for Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. This photo was taken by unknown hands outside one of the buildings. Fans of Miyazaki films will recognize the robot from *Castle in the Sky*. Unfortunately the photo was very low quality, full of artifacts, scratches, and very little information. I repainted the whole thing in Photoshop, virtually reconstructing the faces at several hundred percent so that they'd look good at 100%. Bob might use the photo in the web site he's constructing.
This year Bob and his wife Sharry attended Nippon, the Worldcon in Japan. They visited the local attractions, including the museum for Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. This photo was taken by unknown hands outside one of the buildings. Fans of Miyazaki films will recognize the robot from *Castle in the Sky*. Unfortunately the photo was very low quality, full of artifacts, scratches, and very little information. I repainted the whole thing in Photoshop, virtually reconstructing the faces at several hundred percent so that they'd look good at 100%. Bob might use the photo in the web site he's constructing.
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Oh wow that is the coolest thing I have ever seen, that movie was the film that introduced me to the world of japanese animation.
Because of Laputa "Castle in the Sky", I have been obsessed with robots and anime for a very long time.
Seeing this is a bit like finding a picture of a real life dinosaur, it's unbelievable but so amazing you just don't care.
I have another new goal in life thanks to you, I must go and see this someday! =^^=
Because of Laputa "Castle in the Sky", I have been obsessed with robots and anime for a very long time.
Seeing this is a bit like finding a picture of a real life dinosaur, it's unbelievable but so amazing you just don't care.
I have another new goal in life thanks to you, I must go and see this someday! =^^=
Bob and I met in 1971, when we all turned up (with a third guy named Phil) for our first meeting of the Ontario SF Club. The three of us were a big part of the core of Toronto SF fandom for a few years after that. We tended to go separate ways after that -- Bob into professional writing, Phil into travelling out of a backpack, me into whatever the heck it is *I* do... Bob and I stay in touch over the phone a lot, but since he lives ust outside the city limit and I don't have a car, we don't see each other more than four or five times a year now.
He has a really good novel "Julian" in the works, and a superb short story called "This Peaceable Land: the Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beacher Stowe" coming out next year in an original anthology from DAW called "Other Worlds", edited by Nick Gevers & Jay Lake. "Julian" is mid-to-near future, after the decline of the United States as an affluent democracy, and "This Peaceable Land" and alternate history of the post-civil war years.
He has a really good novel "Julian" in the works, and a superb short story called "This Peaceable Land: the Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beacher Stowe" coming out next year in an original anthology from DAW called "Other Worlds", edited by Nick Gevers & Jay Lake. "Julian" is mid-to-near future, after the decline of the United States as an affluent democracy, and "This Peaceable Land" and alternate history of the post-civil war years.
I wasn't there, actually. It was after "Nippon," the Japanese worldcon a few years ago. I can barely afford worldcons when they happen in my own city (twice in my lifetime). Japan is out of the question. But Bob is a successful writer, so he and Sharry could afford it. It's even possible that his publisher, Tor, lent a hand.
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