Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:41:06 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Genre food fight?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Paul Mcauley writes:

"I became more and more enraged by Kristine Kathryn Rusch's piece in
Asimov's, mostly because it exemplifies the lamentably pious,
holy-than-thou obsession with definitions that's becoming rife in the
science-fiction community. If you really want to kill SF as a genre, go
right ahead and tell people what is and what isn't really SF, and
don't forget to exclude people whose work borrows from and expands
on the central themes and tropes of the genre simply because they forgot
to include a heroic narrative or some other tick mark that meets the
approval of the Guardians of the True Quill."

<http://unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com/2006/10/dont-fence-me-in.html>