Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:44:00 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
CC: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] "One hundred years ago an American immigrant invented science fiction."
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:
> "Okay, that=92s not true. Not even close. "
>
> http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/12/science-fiction

Or, as Moskowitz put it, RALPH 124C41+ was a "marvelous work of
technical prophecy, broken, every few pages, by a few words of plot".

mark
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