Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:59:28 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>,
        "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: PRSFS, Philcon (was Re: WSFA)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 12/18/2005 12:26 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

>Three or four times a year they have a get-together that's just casual
>conversation rather than book reports.  I like those best.

Thanks for the info.  I think I'd agree with you on which sort of meeting
is best.  I don't mind hearing about books, but I'd rather it just come up
in conversation rather than be as formal as PRSFS sounds like they do it.

I like hard SF too, as well as soft SF and a fair bit of fantasy, though
most of my non-work reading for the last few years has been non-fiction
(mostly
how-to books and magazines).

One of the reasons I like hard SF is that it's usually problem-solving
fiction.  A situation is created, and some aspect of science or technology
is usually the solution...trying to figure it out ahead of the author
revealing it is much of the entertainment.  With soft SF or fantasy the
problems are usually political, interpersonal, or some other aspect of
social or psychology...but there's still a problem to figure out.  All of
them can include elements of the strange and wonderful, or not so
wonderful, so you get away from the every-day for a while, which is also good.

-- Mike B.

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