Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:45:38 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu> To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, <WSFA-forum at yahoogroups.com> Subject: [WSFA] another definition of SF Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> *Science Fiction is that genre of cognitive estrangement in a post-Gothic mode, utilizing a willing suspension of disbelief, transcending anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, where spacemen, raygun in fist, soar through outer space with a glamorous brunette Space-Babes in their brawny arms.* <http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=903> mjw