NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/alt/pagan/15678

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From: [e-mail] (Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: Why Science Fiction?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:55:26 GMT
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Depending on how specifically you draw your lines, I don't like
science fiction myself -- I enjoy fantasy novels, both historical and
modern, but I don't like hard-core sf compelte with rivets.  Now, a
lot of fantasy has elements of sf and vice versa (for instance,
Patricia Kennealy's Keltiad series has computers and space ships but
it's basically fantasy), and so the line blurs pretty easily.  I tend
to find myself in the sf/fantasy section of the bookstore quite often.
However, I'm not a genre person, and I tend to read things no matter
what the publishing company prints on the spine of the book.

As to why many pagans read such stuff, I think it's more the case that
many pagans are vociferous readers, and many are intelligent, and also
perhaps not as mainstream as other folks -- that seems to be the
profile of an sf/fantasy reader rather than a pagan.  So I think that
it's just many of us who happen to be pagan also happen to be in the
sf/fantasy reader demographic, so to speak.

Just my opinion, for what it's worth...

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