Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:16:12 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: History and fandom
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> sfbookfan at yahoo.com 4/21/2005 10:09:14 AM >>>
>--- 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"

Good dieting?

Oh, you meant.....

mjw