Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:05:11 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Whoops... [WSFA] Re: Has anyone read any good books lately?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

"Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:

> "It's really an elegy to rural America disguised as an SF
> story. When Gardner Dozois bought it for Asimov's, he said,
> 'It's not SF, but let them shoot me.' "

Rural?  I seem to recall "Bears Discover Fire" was set mostly on the
median strips of interstate highways.  I guess that's partly rural,
but it's not what most people think of as the rustic countryside.