From: "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: President Lindbergh?
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:49:02 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

    Well, one raspberry to the _Chicago Sun-Times_ for literary snobbery
and another one for not doing your job by providing readers with meaningful
information.  And another one to the _New York Times_ for reviewing a 67
year old book as the cutting edge of alternate histo... counterfactual
literature.
    And cheers & applause to Keith Roberts for _Pavane_, still a good
read after 36 years.  I guess that the _New York Times_ will get around to
reviewing it about 2035.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 2:45 PM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: President Lindbergh?

>strongl at sddc.army.mil 03/18/04 02:01PM
>    "Sounds like a fluke."  Obviously, Ernest Lilley has worked with =
my
>organization before.  Tuesday, a computer fix caused the computer window =
to
>shift about 3 centimeters to the left... which made using buttons located =
on
>the left side of the screen, umm... interesting.  In any event, I tried
>President Lindbergh again and this time reached the 1940s.
>    The buzz on the book in question doesn't really provide much
>information about the book.  I recap the review as "Wow!  Someone wrote a
>book with political implications during an election year!  What a =
startling
>innovation!"

Ah, but because it's written by a major literary talent, it ain't no =
scruffy, low life,  sci-fi alternate history novel.

It's a counterfactual novel.

More here: <http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/AHnytArticle.htm>-
Warning: academics at work!

& I think the Prologue of Keith Robert's "Pavane" is a masterful opening =
to a great book.

mjw