I'm sure these things have been written / talked about from the first time SF writers / fans sat down together. Probably the first time two people sat down to discuss the first issue of Amazing Stories. I blame Hugo Gernsback.
By synchroncity, a copy of The Engines Of the Night by Barry Malzberg has just arrived via abebooks. I had forgotten how good it is, there are lots of good quotes in it. One of the essays counters the 'SF would have been better if it had never ghettoised' theory, and ends 'he was a crook, old Hugo, but her made all us crooks possible'.
Anyway, if you haven't read it, you really should.
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Date: 2004-12-09 08:52 am (UTC)I'm sure these things have been written / talked about from the first time SF writers / fans sat down together. Probably the first time two people sat down to discuss the first issue of Amazing Stories. I blame Hugo Gernsback.
By synchroncity, a copy of The Engines Of the Night by Barry Malzberg has just arrived via abebooks. I had forgotten how good it is, there are lots of good quotes in it. One of the essays counters the 'SF would have been better if it had never ghettoised' theory, and ends 'he was a crook, old Hugo, but her made all us crooks possible'.
Anyway, if you haven't read it, you really should.