Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:59:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Why Charlie Stross Hates Star Trek
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

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From: Mike B. <yahoo at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
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Sent: Tue, October 13, 2009 12:49:20 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Why Charlie Stross Hates Star Trek

Michael Walsh wrote:
> http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/10/why_i_hate_star_trek.html

Very good points, and a good summary of why movie and TV SF generally
sucks compared to novels and short stories.
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It's much like my own analysis, that all standard tv is like that.
(I commented there in more detail.)

However, there's a totally unrelated comment I'd like to make more
directly but can't because SFWA closed comments on their
"Turkey City Lexicon."  They have misused "diffuse" for "defuse"
 in the section "You Can't Fire Me, I Quit."   I'm sort of accustomed
to that mistake in online material, but for SFWA to do it is upsetting.
They also had a typo in the head: "Stapeldon" in Part Five; they
spelled it correctly in the text.

I'm not in SFWA, obviously.  I hope someone will bring this to their
attention.  The "diffuse/defuse" mistake weakens their image.

=Tamar