Shocking SMA. I am becoming so ancient my language is no longer spoken.
On 7 May 2010 01:06, 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
> >> >> [log in to unmask]
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >> >>
> >> >> Latest books:
> >> >> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> >> >> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> >> >> Wednesdays'
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
> >> >>
> >> >> 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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> > David Bircumshaw
> > "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
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> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
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> >
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David Bircumshaw
"Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
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