From: "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 13:07:33 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Big problem is that people try to apply current standards to
"historical" events, without understanding the attitudes of the times.
For an SF example, why is there no sex in pulp SF in the 1940s and
1950s?

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."

I have to disagree about there being NO sex in pulp SF in the '50's- what
about "They Do It With Mirrors" by Heinlien, for instance?  Hell, ANYTHING
by Heinlien ALWAYS has some sex.  That's why he was so cool to read in high
school.

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