Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 11:18:53 -0400
From: Kit Mason <kit at hers.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Hidden SF & F
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Strong, Lee wrote:
> 	Elspeth doesn't want sf and fantasy to be shelved into mainstream
> book/media shelves.  As I understand her, she doesn't want to have to search
> the mainstream shelves to find sf and fantasy.  Too late.  I peruse
> mainstream lit in libraries and bookstores fairly often and frequently
> notice sf and fantasy hidden among the mundanes.  I generally snicker and
> leave it in place... little literary time bombs wating to amaze and amuse
> those who aren't fans yet.
>

There is a move on among librarians in some places to de-ghettoize (if
that be a word) science fiction and fantasy, on the premise that more
people are likely to read it if it's shelved in with "ordinary" things.

Kit