Talk To Xanth Creator Piers Anthony

Posted by Roblimo on Monday July 8, 2002 @07:08AM from the beware-of-the-invisible-giant dept.

Not only is Piers Anthony one of the world's most popular fantasy authors (his books have been science fiction and fantasy staples for decades) but he has been using Linux and StarOffice 5.2 for the past year. This is your opportunity to ask Piers about either the technical aspects of using Linux and StarOffice to produce fiction or about his upcoming work (new Xanth novels coming soon!) or almost anything else. We'll forward 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Piers tomorrow, and will run his answers (verbatim, as always) as soon as he gets them back to us.

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Re:Computer? by arkanes · 2002-07-08 07:57 · Score: 2, Offtopic

One his authors notes (back when I actually read his stuff, so quite some time ago - maybe 8 years or more) mentioned how he was adjusting to a new computer he'd gotten - I believe it was a VAX machine, and I think he also mentioned a Dvorak keyboard. He's been using computers for a long time, certainly pre-dating Linux. This was right around the time I was getting into computers myself, and I remember being impressed when he talked about setting up user directories and such.