From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Future Washington Anthology
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:19:13 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

I assume that Eric's not really serious. New York has it's own vibe, and
it's very different than DCs. I'm more or less from NY...but I've always
thought DC was cooler in its own way. People go to NY to make money, LA
to get famous, Boston to get scrod (interesting use of the future
perfect tense, that) but they come here to change the world.

A lot of the anthologies I read that claim to have a focus wind up being
too inclusive, unfocused and well...lame. After our wild success with
Future Washington, we could certainly talk about an entire Washington
series: Fantastic, Alternate, and whatnot, but to start off with, and
for the max positive publicity, I'm thinking to keep it fairly hard
sf/futurist stuff about the changing face of the area and the face and
role of government. One of the great contrasts in the DC area is that
the government is located in what may well become a third world city in
the future owing to its orphan status.

If we did something, I'd suggest budgeting some money to see if we could
get Bruce Sterling or Neil Stephenson to do a piece, and use that as a
hook to pull other folks.

Ernest