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