Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:09:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: N Lynch <sfbookfan at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] History and fandom
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:
> Comics fandom has been separate and distinct from SF
> fandom since the
> mid-'50s (I have been in both).  There was never a
> question of it escaping
> from "the fold," [snip]

Wonderful review of fandom's beginnings and brief
overview of How We Got Here.  Unfortunately, the fans
who know this stuff are passing away and there is no
clear way to pass long that we've been there and done
that.

We're doomed to the eternal loops of people asking the
same questions over and receiving the same answers
over again.  First it was the "why is fandom
shrinking" which was last week and this week the usual
"why are there different fandoms"?

Seems to me there was a discussion on a FAQ, but none
one could figure out what should be there. I think
Ted's answer should be the answer to at least one
question.  Your assignment is to write the question.

Nicki

"The man who enters a library is in the best society this world affords; the good and the great welcome him, surround him, and humbly ask to be allowed to become his servants."  -Andrew Carnegie
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