From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: from Ansible...
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 19:02:21 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 10:27 AM
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

And the "MMW" credit-line is for former WSFAn Martin Morse Wooster, who
feeds material to ANSIBLE religiously.

--Ted White