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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
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Subject: Re: what do _you_ think of sf?
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 10:58:58 EDT
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In article <14580@watmath.UUCP> jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner) writes:
>[...]
>
>Because mundane literature receives more attention and respect than genre
>literature...
>I have read that she has had to put up with a lot of
>criticism from the British writing establishment -- SF is not respectable
>literature, even though her SF novels have the same quality of prose
>and thought as all her other work.

   Agreed.  Another case in point:  a few (well... many) years ago I 
took a course in Comparative Literature here at the university entitled
"Fantasy and Science Fiction."  I remember the professor commenting that
she had to put up with a lot of flack from her peers for stooping to such
dizzying depths.  (And she didn't even assign any Heinlein!) 

-- 
 -joel 
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