If Robin starts looking up terms, btw, I will stick my head in a
bucket of water and cry.
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> No, just smartarsery. Geeks use Sci-Fi to refer to just such things
> are Dr Who and Star Wars serialisations, as opposed to SFF, which is,
> basically, all the rest, good and bad. But no hard and fast rules, and
> in these places "pulp fiction" is not a pejorative term.
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:53 AM, David Bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Do you know, if I didn't know better I'd suspect a soupcon of the partisan
>> in that remark ...
>>
>> :)
>>
>> On 6 May 2010 23:56, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Well let's be honest, Sci-fi has always been downmarket. SFF, on the
>>> other hand...
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:43 AM, David Bircumshaw
>>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> > Ha! Probably, Doug. I can think of a kind of example of that, this in our
>>> > central lending library, where all the copies of (in the sci-fi section)
>>> > books by Stanislaw Lem, other than Solaris (which of course has been
>>> twice
>>> > filmed) have been dumped BUT you can get copies of the latest Doctor Who
>>> or
>>> > Star Trek novelisations in abundance. Yup, they've even managed to take
>>> > sci-fi downmarket.
>>> >
>>> > On 6 May 2010 15:54, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Ah, but I bet theyre keeping their copies of Pride and Prejudice and the
>>> >> Zombies?
>>> >>
>>> >> Doug
>>> >>
>>> >> On 5-May-10, at 4:01 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Understood. I was at the same library again today: additiona\l to my
>>> >>> previous list were:
>>> >>> Ulysses; the Arnold Wesker trilogy (i.e Chips with Everything, I'm
>>> talking
>>> >>> about Jerusalem, Roots); The Rainbow; The Good Soldier; Northanger
>>> Abbey;
>>> >>> Persuasion; Emma; Pride & Prejudice; Madame Bovary ; Vanity Fair; Kes
>>> (!);
>>> >>> and at that point I gave up looking.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> best
>>> >>>
>>> >>> dave
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> Douglas Barbour
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>>> >>
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>>> >>
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>>> >>
>>> >>
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>>> >>
>>> >> The secret
>>> >>
>>> >> I was immediately set upon by two or three
>>> >> critics, who hurled sophistries and
>>> >> maledictions at me that were astonishing
>>> >> in their dimness.
>>> >>
>>> >> Jorge Luis Borges
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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