R.I.P. George Clayton Johnson interview – “Between Science and Superstition” – #064

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This show is being released on Monday, February 08, 2010. My interview with George Clayton Johnson was recorded on January 08, 2010.

It has come to my attention that George passed on Dec. 25, 2015.

What do Merlin the Magician, Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Kung Fu, Ocean's 11, Logan's Run and hemp have in common? Today's guest, and we'll be traveling with him to the realm between science and superstition that lies across the oceans, through the stars and into the Twilight Zone.

I've known George Clayton Johnson for about 17 years. And George hardly looks like he's changed a bit in all of those years, probably because he's been out kicking the can. Next times you hear children playing kick the can outside, you can bet that one of them is George Clayton Johnson.

In my early twenties George was the man that not only inspired me to become a writer, but literally taught me how to observe. George is the author of Ocean's 11, the first episode of Star Trek, eight episodes of the Twilight Zone, the TV series Kung Fu, and the movie Logan's Run.

We met up for lunch at a cafe out in the Los Angeles area last month to sit down for an interview to discuss his life as one of the world's most famous science fiction writers.

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  1 comment for “R.I.P. George Clayton Johnson interview – “Between Science and Superstition” – #064”

  1. David Bissett
    March 8, 2013 at 12:23 am

    [I loved this interview. It inspired me to post a sci-fi poem
    I wrote a couple years back. I hope that’s okay.]

    100-YEAR VISITOR

    I am a robot/hybrid scientist
    Observing your planet every one hundred years
    I have noted your city states become kingdoms
    And then your kingdoms develop to become empires

    I have seen your flags gleam with shimmering pride
    Recently overshadowed by the banner of technology
    It appears you have no resistance to assimilation
    Now more and more you depend upon machines

    I have noted that you trust in your computers
    Far more than you will ever trust in each other
    And now your empire has become a technocracy
    Inevitably each of you has become only a number

    I am making a notation for the next time I pass
    Is this inevitably the way it always has to be?
    See I’ve heard my ancestors used to love one another
    And now I wonder if you will become as lonely as me

    by David Bissett

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