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Reflections: A Postage Stamp For Isaac
by Robert Silverberg Isaac Asimov on a United States postage stamp? http://www. geocities.com/Area51/Vault/4986/asimovstamp (And there’s a fine, resounding twenty-first-century address for you, one that the creator of Susan Calvin and R. Daneel and so many other famed futuristic characters would surely find thrilling. Nothing so mundane, so prosaic, so old hat, as P.O. Box xxx, Church Street Station, New York, NY. Oh, no–Area51/Vault/4986, and don’t forget the slashes. But if you don’t want to bother keying in all that, just google for "asimovstamp" and you’ll go right to it. Poor Isaac, to have missed out on all the delicious complexities of the http://www world!) An Isaac stamp? What a wonderful notion! Is it really something that could happen, though? Consider some of the people who already have been on United States postage stamps. There was, back in 1940, a long series of Famous Americans stamps, which included such people as Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, Booker T. Washington, and John Philip Sousa, whose names are (I hope) all still recognizable to modern-day Americans, but also some, like Ethelbert Nevin, Daniel Chester French, and Crawford Long, who perhaps were not exactly household names sixty-odd years ago and who by this time are quiz-program material. Fame is a sometime thing, sometimes. | |
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