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Bud Foote, RIP

One of my favorite professors from when I was an undergraduate, Bud Foote, has passed away. He taught the relatively infamous English Lit class on Science Fiction and is one of the promoters of Science Fiction within the academy. When he retired he also donated his 8000 volume collection of books and magazines to the university library.

• Obituary in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  
• His book collection, with other donations/expansions.
  
• A little bit about the donation.
  
• Bud being interviewed on CNN about 2001 as 2001 began.
  
• A good interview by Bud Foote of Kim Stanley Robinson.
  
• Review of his book placing Twain into the history of science fiction writing, and in particular creating the "two-way time travel" motif.
  
• The book, The Connecticut Yankee in the Twentieth Century, appears to be available online here in full text.
  
• His other book is a chapbook of poetry.
  
• Haven't found anything online of the Great Speckled Bird articles or music (though he is credited on Pete Seeer's Clearwater).
  

"Never argue with a man who is convinced the earth is flat. You have thought about why it is round for maybe five minutes. He spends every waking minute thinking up arguments that it is flat, and he believes if only he could convince everyone, then the problems of the world would be solved" - Bud Foote

Posted by duver001 at May 26, 2005 5:31 PM