Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:41:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: "influenced by the work of Philip K. Dick, Philip Pullman and Madeleine L'Engle"
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

 Michael Walsh <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:

>http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6646487.html?nid=2286&source=title&rid=132399408

In what way do they mean "preempted"?  Last I heard,
when one thing (A) preempted another (B)
it meant that A had taken the place of B.

I suspect someone used a spell checker and didn't use a brain.

=Tamar