From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Blish... Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:34:53 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Bittner" <drewbitt at yahoo.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 3:26 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Blish... Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!

> 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 readers.

I'm intrigued by your last line.  What are you saying?   What do you mean
by "the sometimes-anti-social nature of fandom in general," and,
separately, how can anything about the nature of fandom "discourage some
potential readers"?

--Ted White