Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:15:22 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old School
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> Lawhorn.William at bls.gov 3/30/2005 11:19:09 AM >>>
>I want to first thank the Lynches for selling part of their collection
of
>books and recommending a couple of very good books that I may not
>have read
>otherwise.
>
>On that line of thinking, I am going to make a request.  Are there
>members
>out there willing to recommend or write reviews of books from the
>archives
>of Sci-fi?  Kind of retro-review.  It could make a nice addition to
the
>WSFA
>journal.  Let's face it, although no longer young, I still have only
seen
>the tip of the literature.

Which brings to mind.... are the books that one should have read to be
fully informed about the genre?  Sort of, let's say, "The 100 Essential
SF Books You Need To Have Read"?

Note: this has nothing to do as to why books are OP, why publishing is
quite often stupid, or the like.

mjw

>
>Bill