Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!JAFFE From: JAFFE@RUTGERS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V10 #247 Message-ID: <2560@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 16:40:26 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2560 Posted: Mon Jul 8 16:40:26 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 07:33:31 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 17 From: Bard BloomFIRTH@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. -------