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- From: aa317@Freenet.carleton.ca (Mike Porter)
- Subject: Re: Isn't anyone READING anymore?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.203527.21962@freenet.carleton.ca>
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- Reply-To: aa317@Freenet.carleton.ca (Mike Porter)
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- References: <1hil0dINN42c@werple.apana.org.au> <1992Dec21.215858.5329@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:35:27 GMT
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- In a previous article, kat@werple.apana.org.au (Kathryn Andersen) says:
- >aa317@Freenet.carleton.ca (Mike Porter) writes:
- >>...but this is the first time I've run
- >>across a science fiction area in my short travels.
- >Really? There's a whole hierarchy of groups under rec.arts.sf.*
-
- >[stuff deleted]
-
- >>Of course, I'm just getting over my
- >>disappoint at reading a "spoiler" from the States, where they are a week
- >>ahead of us, apparently.
- >Ah, then you *do* read other sf groups - or do you not consider the
- >rec.arts.startrek.* groups to be sf?
-
- Aha, very astute, Kathryn, but at that point I hadn't even discovered
- rec.*anything*--I was more or less working down the list alphabetically
- :-). The "spoiler" I was referring to was on CompuServe.
-
- As for Star Trek being SF or not... I just finished reading a posting by
- someone who claimed that the latest episode (don't worry, you'll see it in
- a couple of years, if the Aussie TV stations haven't been razed by irate
- trekkies) wasn't SF because there weren't any neat special effects
- (actually, I'm misquoting, but that was the impression he gave me--the
- point he was making was more like the show wasn't SF because you didn't
- need a futuristic setting to tell the story). When is this argument going
- to end? Have you ever read any of Spider Robinson's stuff? I've loved
- every thing he's written (that I've read), but how some of it gets
- classified as SF, I'll never know (I suspect he doesn't either). The
- point is, he writes good stuff in a particular setting, and there aren't
- spaceships blowing up, or (necessarily) weird aliens walking around, going
- "beep!" The whole field is very diverse... That's not to say I'm looking
- forward to seeing posts about Jackie Collin's latest work here... ;-)
-
- --
- Cheers, Mike
-