Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:24:31 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Quiz!
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> samlubell at verizon.net 10/11/07 12:12 PM >>>
>That would be today's winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Doris=20
>Lessing.
>
>Is she the first sf writer to win it?
>I'm counting Thomas Mann, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Gabriel=20
>Garc=C3-a M=C3=A1rquez as fantasy/magical realism writers, but Lessing=20
>wrote actual science fiction about other planets and galactic empires.=20

I think the others are more accidental visitors to our wacky little genre. =
 Lessing, in that quote, is quite unapologetic about writing that crazy =
Buck Rogers stuff.  I think the others might look somewhat askance at the =
thought.

She was also one of the (many) GoHs at the 1987 WorldCon in Brighton.  The =
others were:=20
Alfred Bester (US)
Arkady Strugatsky (USSR)
Boris Strugatsky (USSR)
Jim Burns (artist)
Ray Harryhausen (film)
Joyce & Ken Slater (fan)
David Langford (special fan)

mjw