Crawford Kilian - 1987+

 

Often I write here that Vancouver has a poor memory for its past and in particular in the theme of culture, music and writers.

Most in this city may know that William Gibson, who wrote many acclaimed science fiction novels, lives in Vancouver. There is another such a novelist that I had the luck to photograph for Western Living who wrote science fiction that he transported into an ancient Roman situation. Wikipedia says this fine man is alive. He is a year older than I am. Besides his medium format slides I have part of the article he wrote for Western Living and a page of something I wrote for which I have no memory as to why I wrote it for what publication. I did read most of his output.

The important subject to consider is that we must remember these writers who contributed to our city. How can we bring them back?  

In the part of his essay below he mentions Robert Heinlein with the nice inclusion of " one of the elders of our tribe". I started reading science fiction in the late 50s and there is one book  by Heinlein with a title that is in my mind as I drive in my present Vancouver - I am "A Stranger in a Strange Land".