Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site im4u.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!ut-sally!im4u!jsq From: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: First SF book -- an "anti-suggestion" Message-ID: <545@im4u.UUCP> Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 19:15:53 EDT Article-I.D.: im4u.545 Posted: Sat Sep 21 19:15:53 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 08:04:12 EDT References: <3572@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman) Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 9 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 ARPA Internet and CSNET: jsq@sally.UTEXAS.EDU, formerly jsq@ut-sally.ARPA