From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Future Washington Anthology
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:12:41 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:19 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Future Washington Anthology

> 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.

Some of us have long-standing connections with a variety of SF writers of
note.   Some of us *are* SF writers of note.  But publishing a book of this
nature seems frivolous in comparison with some of the club's other
financial needs -- and the need to keep from spending this windfall in one
hasty lump.

--Ted White