Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:22:04 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The World Turned Upside Down - and changes
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> jkling at nasw.org 9/13/04 10:04:57 AM >>>
>Sunday, September 12, 2004, 11:45:29 PM, you wrote:
>
>> I just accept the fact that some of the assumptions
>> about technology and science made in older SF have
>> turned out to have been wrong.  As long as it's
>> well-written I don't care.   for instance, Arthur C.
>> Clarke's Islands in the Sky is a fun adventure story
>> that makes completely wrong assumptions about the
>> effects of prolonged weightlessness, our ability to
>> colonize Venus, and advances in space travel and
>> exploration.  So what.  It's still a good read.
>
>I agree wholeheartedly.
>
>For me, all SF is escapist, even 'idea' SF.

Anyone for updated editions of Scott Fitzgerald?  William Faulkner?
Charles Dickens?

Updated Sherlock Holmes ?

Oh wait, those are classics.

mjw
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>Jim Kling
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