I had a dream last night in which I had been summoned to see Lord of the Rings<\/i> director Peter Jackson, but had no idea why. I went to his hotel, at which I found him surrounded by his minions, some of whom were massaging his feet. He had me sit on a couch opposite him, and instructed two of his helpers to remove my shoes and massage my feet as well. While we sat there, we talked about science fiction and fantasy. I thought, as I looked at him over the foot massagers, this is a little weird, but hey, it’s Peter Jackson!<\/p>\n
Then he got to the real purpose of his invitation. It had absolutely nothing to do with me—he’d been trying to reach one of my writers, Eric Baker, a longtime friend whose fiction and non-fiction I’ve been publishing as far back as the Science Fiction Age<\/i> days, and who I’d met long before that. Jackson said that the phone and e-mail information he had for Eric didn’t work, and he hoped I had better and more recent info, because he really needed to get in touch with him.<\/p>\n
So I pulled out my BlackBerry and searched for Eric’s entry in my address book, but for some reason, no matter how I typed in his name, I couldn’t find it. Other friends and writers kept popping up, but Jackson didn’t want them, only Eric, and there was no Eric. I woke still looking, with Jackson being very disappointed, and me being disappointed I was disappointing him.<\/p>\n
Sorry, Eric—I guess this means Jackson won’t be calling you about that gig!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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