As a pre-teen, I was exposed to "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" and dug it; thought his Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" was a level above any other. In college, I developed a fresh appreciation for him when this book of his short stories & essays was assigned for a science fiction course I took from Dr. Walter Isle.
Much later, I even started writing in public places, such as the lounge cars of Amtrak trains, borrowing from his stunt of writing in book store display windows.