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From: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: First SF book -- an "anti-suggestion"
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Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 19:15:53 EDT
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Another anti-suggestion:  don't give somebody a book similar
to what they're used to in some other genre (including "mainstream"
and "literary").  They will only see the similarities, but not
the sf aspects, because they won't understand those.  So they'll
only see part of the book and will interpret it as a flawed book
of whatever genre they're used to.
-- 
John Quarterman,   UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo,harvard,gatech}!ut-sally!jsq
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