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