Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:17:09 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: is speculative fiction poised to break into the literary canon?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> 2/2/2011 7:55 AM >>>
>About the Booker Prize. And yes, there's a comment by this guy who's
>nickname is whitroth....
><http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/02/science-fiction-literary-cano=
n?commentpage=last#end-
>of-comments>

"SF's no good!," they bellow till we're deaf.
"But this looks good."--"Well then it's not SF!"
       - Robert Conquest

For the kids on the list, Conquest was co-editor with Kingsley Amis of the =
Spectrum series of reprint anthologies.  There 5 volumes, all worth =
tracking down.

And of course there are wikis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Conquest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis

mjw