Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:58:41 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Not a Part of the SF Community
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

>    Michael Walsh states that author Charles Harness has attended a
few
>conventions but has never felt himself to be part of the SF community.
 I
>find this self diagnosis to be interesting.  SF authors would seem to
define
>the SF community.  Why would an author feel himself not to be part of
"his"
>community?
>    And, is the distinction between science fiction and science
fiction
>fandom part of this feeling?
>

He has read the stuff but apparently never the felt the need to "hang
out" with fellow writers.

Here's excerpts from a Locus interview:
<http://www.locusmag.com/1998/Issues/12/Harness.html>

mjw