Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 13:21:53 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: SF and the Bestseller Lists
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Erica VD Ginter wrote:

> Oh, this is going to be fun to watch! Recently, Post columnist Bob Levey did
> a column about Oprah Winfrey's book club, saying he'd been wrong to put it
> down. You see, he had looked over the list of her picks and found only
> worthwhile books, no trash, including no science fiction. I was going to
> write a letter, but what's the point? You know all SF is is that space opera
> shit and people running around in rubber pointed ears!

Bob Levey is a smarmy, sanctimonious, self-congratulating piece of work whom I
wrote off ten or fifteen years ago and refused to read any longer.  So I missed
the bit you mentioned.  But it fits.

--Ted White