Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Haynes.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA From: Haynes.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: SF as Great Literature Message-ID: <12366@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 14:14:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12366 Posted: Fri Oct 7 14:14:00 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Oct-83 09:23:30 EDT Lines: 6 Much as I like Silverlock, I don't think it is "great literature". A "great work of "contemporary" fantasy" maybe, but it is derivative after all. It is clever, entertaining, engrossing, and great fun, but it is not "great literature", which is what this discussion started about. -- Charles