[UA] Ellison Iconomancy

[Nick Wedig]

>Well, Unca Harlan isn't dead yet, so he's useless for Iconomancy
>purposes.
>
>HOWEVER, we've got a bunch of good 'un sf&f/fantasist authors to
>draw on:
>
>CS Lewis
>JRR Tolkien
>Robert A. Heinlein
>Alfred Bester
>Robert E. Howard
>Roger Zelazny
>Theodore Sturgeon
>Phillip K. Dick
>Jorge Luis Borges
>Italo Calvino
>Franz Kafka
>
>Did Fritz Leiber die?
>
>For the wicked... L. Ron Hubbard

How many of those would be well known enough to actually work?  100 million people need to recognize their faces, which kinds limits the list, I think.  Asimov, maybe, and possibly Hubbard (though I say that just to use Scientology in unexpected ways).  I doubt many of the others.

Mr. Teapot
racing to finish his email

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