From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Alternative reality v SF
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:04:55 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Mike B. Sed: <<I don't think that we should recategorize stories just
because the future that they were about is now in our past, from a calendar
standpoint anyway.>>

Sure. That's only reasonable for anything written before AR got popular. I'm
of the opinion that more and more SF will think of itself as AR so as to
prolong its shelf life.

When I read SF about the near future I wonder about the possibility it might
be actually prescient, but when I read retro SF, I wonder if it might have
happened if things had been different...which has an AR ring to it.

Ern