Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:46:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: another definition of SF
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Michael Walsh wrote:

> *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>

I like the sudden switch from LitSpeak to OldPulp.

=Tamar