Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:25:23 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Blish... Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Ted White wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Drew Bittner" <drewbitt at yahoo.com>

>>...  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

You never saw Joe Mayhew work over a bunch of newbies who didn't
appreciate written SF.

As subcultures go, fandom is easily one of the most accepting I've run
into outside of church groups (who essentially do it for a living, and
tend to turn mean if you don't give them money).  Possibly the worst is
model rocket fandom -- I went to a national level event once and
*nobody* would talk to me.  Feh.

--
Steve Smith                                    sgs at aginc dot net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."