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 -- After Nuremberg, you recall we didn't hang the German "Soldaten," we hung the "Generalen." That was the right idea then, and it's the right idea now. - Georgie Ann Geyer