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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: poem
> > I sometimes think that what did me in was reading all that Science
> > Fiction; coming to assume a universe in which, onwards, intelligence
> > keeps growing (not much to support that vision around us right now,
> > viz. Stephen's political note)...
>
> That was very much American SF, Doug -- Brit SF has always been a bit
more
> pessimistic (think of say Thomas Disch or Ballard).
>
> Or Wells -- dem dam' Morlochs.
>
> Robin
Hey - Tom Disch is American. Lives on Union Square in NY.
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