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From: emcwilliams%lezah.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
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Subject: Someone's first SF
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 14:32:23 EDT
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From: emcwilliams%lezah.DEC@decwrl.ARPA


Personally, I think perhaps one should recommend just a nibble of SF
to a first time reader, i.e. a short story. There are plenty of them
in all the genres listed in previous digests. But it seems more
likely to me that giving someone twenty pages or so of a story-type
you think they might appreciate is a better approach than trying
to feed them 250 (or heavens forbid, 600 pages!!). I know I was
more willing to try squid in appetizer-size bits than I would have
been if someone had handed me an entree-size portion.

Just a thought.

----Ellen McWilliams


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