From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Jumping the Shark
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:59:26 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	Mr. Walsh writes quite well and quite a lot for a self-professed
nonwriter...!
	"Anne McCaffrey jumped the shark..."  Well, that ought to send Mizz
Erica back to her couch...!
	More seriously, I invite WSFAns to write reviews, stories and other
stuff for our esteemed WSFA Journal.  It doesn't have to be a full time
profession, and certainly no one should feel compelled to read/view for
reviewing or to read/view a certain type of literature.  Read and watch what
you like and let others know your thoughts so that we can both home in on
the good stuff and avoid the bad stuff.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 2:44 PM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Book Reviewing for the WSFA Journal, was BN.com

Lee Strong suggested book reviews for the journal in response to my cranky =
comments about the level of bilge water in the best selling skiffy section =
at BN.com.

Regretfully I must decline.  I gave up reading Baen books a long time ago. =
 And I have no interest in the Left Behind series ("Come the rapture, can =
I have your car?")

Tolkien I read in my youth and enjoyed.

Anne McCaffrey jumped the shark ages ago.

So what am I reading these days?
The Economist.
The New Yorker.
Newspapers, mainly Balt Sun and the Sunday Washington Post.  USA Today =
when I'm on the road.

Bookwise, I've started China Mieville's first novel: King Rat, which so =
fart is quite good.

Sturgeon was an optimist . . .

mjw