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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: THE PROBLEMS OF SCIENCE FICTION TODAY, PART III
Message-ID: <1164@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-May-85 22:19:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 28 22:19:45 1985
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In article <1092@druri.UUCP> dht@druri.UUCP (Davis Tucker) writes:
>
>Everyone has an idea of what that elusive ghost "science fiction" is,
>and even if sometimes he or she is a little fuzzy about what it is, 
>there's certainly no doubt about what it isn't. And that mindset, which
>all of us have to one degree or another as regards science fiction
>(me, I don't care what anybody says, I'm not reading any "Little Fuzzy"
>novels), is at the root of this self-censorship. It is all-pervasive

   And when people criticize what they don't like, THEY are furthering
the "self-censorship," right?  You made some valid points in the first
two parts of this essay, but this one is entirely self-contradictory.
Because I read what I enjoy, and I don't read what I don't enjoy, I'm
guilty of censorship?  Nonsense.  Better luck next time.

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 - j "vo" p

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