{"id":149,"date":"2005-12-01T08:26:28","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T16:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=149"},"modified":"2005-12-01T08:26:28","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T16:26:28","slug":"my-first-fan-letter-1981-the-foot-star-wrinkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/01\/my-first-fan-letter-1981-the-foot-star-wrinkle\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Fan Letter (1981): The Foot Star Wrinkle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/footstar.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Still rooting in the basement (Magic Pig that I am) I found the first-ever fan-letter that I got, mailed to me in 1981 care of Ace Books who had just published <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.4w8w.com\/bookrucker3.html\" target=\"_blank\">White Light<\/a><\/i> with a somewhat misleading cover.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was from a guy in the penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.  In response to my careful melding of literature, philosophy, and the mathematics of the infinite, he&rsquo;d smeared ink on his foot and stepped on a piece of paper &#8212; to show me a star-shaped wrinkle.  He wanted me to fund university research on the wrinkle and to write a book on the results with him.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thing we could go 50 50 on Writing Book on Star and on what university Researchs Writes out on Research part.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/whitelightace.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>My welcome by the class of people who read science fiction!<\/p>\n<p>Actually I was pleased.  It used to be that carnivals would come to the small towns we lived in and, say, the Ferris wheel operator would have a pulp paperback tucked into the hip pocket of his jeans, and he&#039;d periodically read a page or two while letting the Wheel do its alloted cycles.  I&#039;d begun to dream of being the author of that book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still rooting in the basement (Magic Pig that I am) I found the first-ever fan-letter that I got, mailed to me in 1981 care of Ace Books who had just published White Light with a somewhat misleading cover. The letter was from a guy in the penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. In response to my careful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}