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From: Phyllis.Lewis@CMU-SEI.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Starship Troopers
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 01:58:21 EDT
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From: Phyllis.Lewis@CMU-SEI


>What is it that everyone sees wrong with STARSHIP TROOPERS?

	Well... To those of you who don't like Heinlein's government, the way
I read the story, I saw this form of "fascism" as just a possibility --
mere speculation as to what could happen.  After all, isn't that what 
separates _Science Fiction_ from "mainstream" literature?

	In fact, by way of an aside, Algis Budrys, in the latest _Fantasy
& Science Fiction_, which of course is 400km from my keyboard, quotes a
founding father of the genre as preferring the title "speculative fiction."
So if we don't propose these alternatives, what do we have?  Nothing more
than mainstream literature with glittering bells and whistles...

							...k

P.S.   No, I'm pretty sure it			       (Kevin Lewis,
      wasn't Campbell...				borrowing an
							account...)