Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 09:19:26 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
    "WSFA Official List" <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Is not dead .... Re: [wsfa-forum] Iain M. Banks
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Until I open the email I thought this was a death announcement.

mjw

>>> mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> 5/13/2011 7:38 AM >>>
One of many things I've been complaining about for decades. For
example,
Lessing's Chroncicles of Canopus in Argus....*

Excerpt:
Now, even the most gifted literary author will be sufficiently aware of

the clichés of the detective story not to let an initial burst of
enthusiasm for a new idea involving any of them get beyond the limits
of
his or her own cranium, and even if they were foolish enough to suggest

something on these lines to their agent or editor they'd immediately be

informed that It's Been Done . . . in fact, It's Been Done to the Point

of Being a Joke . . . and so all the above never happens.

Or at least, it never happens quite as described; substitute the phrase

"science fiction" for the word "detective", delete the 1930s
murder-mystery novel clichés and insert some 30s science fiction
clichés
and I get the impression this scenario has indeed played out,
--- end excerpt ---

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/13/iain-banks-science-fiction-genre>

mark, * has a copy of the Shaver Mysteries

--
Hon. Pres. Medvedev,

    If Russia still has labor camps in Siberia, might there be room in

them for a number of gentleman we have here, who have been working on
Wall St.....

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