Comments on: Philip Klass and William Tenn, RIP http://pennstatermag.com/2010/02/08/philip-klass-and-william-tenn-rip/ A blog by the staff of Penn State's alumni magazine Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:43:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Craig Evans http://pennstatermag.com/2010/02/08/philip-klass-and-william-tenn-rip/#comment-1058 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:26:27 +0000 http://pennstatermag.com/?p=8838#comment-1058 I took Klass’ SF Literature class at Penn State in 1983. For our final exam, we were to critique two of the novels or short stories that we’d read during the course of the semester. I noted that his “Brooklyn Project” violated Newton’s 3d Law, for which I received an “A” and the comment that it hadn’t been often that anyone had pointed that out concerning his “nearest and dearest” (his words to me).
It’s one of the courses that I look back on and realized how it has affected the content and depth of much of my reading over the past 25 years.

]]> By: The New York Times on William Tenn « http://pennstatermag.com/2010/02/08/philip-klass-and-william-tenn-rip/#comment-1053 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:50:14 +0000 http://pennstatermag.com/?p=8838#comment-1053 [...] 15, 2010 Senior editor Ryan Jones noted last week the death of Philip Klass, who taught at Penn State for more than two decades and who also wrote [...]

]]> By: yogahz http://pennstatermag.com/2010/02/08/philip-klass-and-william-tenn-rip/#comment-1016 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:15:13 +0000 http://pennstatermag.com/?p=8838#comment-1016 I took a class from him back in the 70′s for English credits. It was Science Fiction and is one of the classes I still talk about. My condolences to his family.

]]> By: Laurie Mann http://pennstatermag.com/2010/02/08/philip-klass-and-william-tenn-rip/#comment-1015 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:33:52 +0000 http://pennstatermag.com/?p=8838#comment-1015 I’d also recommend the excellent obituary in today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by book editor Bob Hoover:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034536-122.stm

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