Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:36:48 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Blish... Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> drewbitt at yahoo.com 4/19/2005 3:26:59 PM >>>
>I really didn't know anything about Blish when I read
>his Trek adaptations back in '74 or '75. I've read
>some of his work since but that's clearly far from
>even the majority of his writing. Whether he wrote the
>things I'd read before or after Trek was largely
>unimportant to me.
>
>As for knowing the history of sf... well, I picked up
>a lot through osmosis and more from being a critic for
>a newspaper through the late '80s. Being around fans
>who are more up on history and interviewing writers
>makes learning a lot easier, though the
>sometimes-anti-social nature of fandom in general can
>discourage some potential reader.

Catching up on 79 years of US SF history is a problem.  Sort of along
the lines of  "Oh, Paul McCartney had a band before Wings?"

mjw