From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: re: likes/dislikes in reading material
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:35:33 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Cathy, you reminded me of another of my Encounters with Greatness. (BTW, I
had meant to start a thread on that topic, but I don't think I made that
clear--please, everyone post your Close Encounters of the SF [or other]
Greatness Kind!)

Around 1979, Frederik Pohl spoke at Princeton University, where my
ex-husband was a grad student. I asked him if he thought he would have
written "Gateway" differently had he written it 20 years before (it was
fairly new at the time). I said it seemed to me that a 1960-vintage
"Gateway" would have been a travelogue, without the depth of
characterization and protagonist's internal conflict, because SF had changed
so much since 1960. He agreed, saying, "You're very perceptive!" Gave me a
wonderful bit of egoboo at I time when my self-esteem was lower than a
sandworm's belly. A few years ago I recounted the incident to him (of
course, he didn't remember) and thanked him for the praise, thus repaying
the egoboo!

Erica

P.S. I'd rate your critical abilities abouve those of Beavis and Butthead!
(No thanks needed for the egoboo ;).)

-----Original Message-----
From: Cathy Green [mailto:dalek_cag at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 2:43 PM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] re: likes/dislikes in reading material

Lee,

Didn't mean to imply an active dislike of Rama. I
enjoyed it.  I thought it was basically a travelogue
and a pleasant read.  It's just that like other books,
it had been majorly hyped to me, so I guess I
expecting more than just a book long description of an
interesting spaceship.

--cathy

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