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From: JAFFE@RUTGERS.ARPA
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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V10 #247
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 16:40:26 EDT
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From: Bard Bloom 

FIRTH@TL-20B.ARPA writes
> First, the meaning of Canonical.  Since we are not engaged in a
> religious discussion, I assume the intended meaning is

(-8 Well, maybe not a *Roman Catholic* religious discussion.  8-)

I thought that the list was supposed to contain the books that most sf fans
have read and found good (for whatever reason); the books that every sf fan
should have read; the books that non-sf critics of sf should read before
they start flaming or writing critical histories (Anyone else tired of
arguing with people who have read only _The_Space_Vampires_ and
_The_Purple_Cloud_ and decided that all sf is like them?); and have
suggestions of good books that some of us have missed.

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