TIL Gene Wolfe invented the Pringles machine.
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TIL Gene Wolfe invented the Pringles machine.
Rupert Holmes has done virtually everything–he started as a music producer and songwriter, then took up singing himself and released a bunch of albums. He also wrote film scores. Then he wrote a smash hit Broadway musical…not just the songs, but also the libretto and the orchestrations, and with a lot more material than an average show because the audience votes on multiple elements of the show at every performance. Then he wrote a couple of non-musical plays, including one where he wrote himself into the show as a character. Then he created and wrote every episode of Remember WENN. Then he started writing novels (Murder Your Employer is his third, after Where the Truth Lies and Swing). And now he’s also an in-demand librettist for musicals that he didn’t write the scores for.
And he’s apparently the nicest man on the face of the earth.
Rupert Holmes has done virtually everything–he started as a music producer and songwriter, then took up singing himself and released a bunch of albums. He also wrote film scores. Then he wrote a smash hit Broadway musical…not just the songs, but also the libretto and the orchestrations, and with a lot more material than an average show because the audience votes on multiple elements of the show at every performance. Then he wrote a couple of non-musical plays, including one where he wrote himself into the show as a character. Then he created and wrote every episode of Remember WENN. Then he started writing novels (Murder Your Employer is his third, after Where the Truth Lies and Swing). And now he’s also an in-demand librettist for musicals that he didn’t write the scores for.
And he’s apparently the nicest man on the face of the earth.
for a non SF/F example, E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime is a sweeping novel that chronicles the first decade of the 20th century through the lives of three families in New York (one WASP, one Jewish, one Black) and dozens of historical figures. It comes in at under 300 pages.