Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 10:27:38 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Subject: [WSFA] from Ansible... As Others Saw Us. "A late discovery in New Republic coverage of those Gingrich/Forstchen alternate Civil War novels (6 Sep 04). Reviewers Thomas J. Brown and Elisabeth Sifton explain that such alternate histories `ooze out of the vast swamp of contemporary pseudo-literature, humid fantasy and geeky science fiction, adjacent to which is the spongy field where lurid video games are spawned, and all those graphic novels the Japanese love to read in which their country triumphs in World War II.' [MMW] Now I feel all humid, geeky and spongy, and am checking the back garden for lurid video games...." News, comments, & Thog's Masterclass: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Ansible/a216.html mjw