SF history: a small sidebar

[grahamsleight]

In my Vector column a couple of months ago, I said, "I was digging through a pile of old Interzones the other day, trying to find a quotation which had eluded me when I was writing my column for the last Vector. (If my memory isn't tricking me, it was Geoff Ryman, in his interview in IZ33, arguing for "good-faith sf"-which sounded remarkably like

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[guest_informant]

Well, Alan Moore did write sorts of a novel...

Thankyou!

[pigeonhed]

the ability of the genre to take a metaphor and make it something concrete.

That's what I've been looking for. That's where SF is Romantic.

[ext_3059]

Someone should lend Geoff some Greg Egan.

Also, 'monthlys'?

-- tom