Dragonholder by Todd McCaffrey

Author:Todd McCaffrey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2011-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

The bad:

Some people had no trouble belittling science fiction writers – and others were still ignorant. “Now that we’ve landed on the Moon, just what’ll y’all write about?” asked one society columnist assigned to cover a science fiction convention the year Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon. Harlan Ellison took the lady away, kindly but firmly telling her to have her newspaper send over their science editor.

The landing on the Moon had not brought science fiction out of the closet and into social acceptance — nor raised it any higher in H. Wright Johnson’s affections.

Higher in Wright’s affections were gardening and sailing. Wright loved a beautiful garden — but he didn’t like to weed. Fortunately for him, he had two growing sons who could do that little something to earn their keep. Unfortunately, Wright was never trained in the better styles of leadership — to put it mildly. So, while he was in the basement working with seedlings and sipping martinis, he expected his boys to be out in the hot humid Long Island summers gladly pulling up weeds to the greater glory of gardening. This division of labor might just have worked if Wright had not also insisted upon drafting the boys as waiters for his outdoor dinner parties and loudly boasting about how he did all the garden work himself.

When Anne funded Wright’s purchase of the sailboat Angel’s Cloud, a nineteen foot skipjack Chesapeake Bay clammer, she might well have hoped that it would improve the relationship between sons and father — because they all had a love of sailing. But Wright’s manner soon cast such a pall on sailing that he was hard pressed to find a crew, and when the boat was swamped in a storm in the spring of 1970, he was the only one of the family who cared.

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