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FROM: Diana Tixier Herald <[removed]@wic.net>
REC'D: 3/14/01, 9:19 AM

I ran across an article today by Jack McDevitt, a current Nebula
nominee, that eloquently gets to the heart of why we all should read
science fiction. It even starts out with a library tie in. It can be
found at

http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/features/eos/why.asp

Even if, or especially if, you don't read science fiction this is a good
article for all readers' advisors to read.
--
Happy reading,
Di Herald
[removed]@wic.net see the Genrefluent page at
http://www.genrefluent.com
Rosenberg's First Law of Reading "Never apologize for your reading
tastes."

FROM: [removed]@earthlink.net
REC'D: 3/14/01, 1:30 PM

Di--
What a marvelous article! Thanks so much for posting its location!

JONI

Joni Richards Bodart
Univ of Denver/DPL

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/19/01, 11:19 AM

At 08:17 AM 3/14/01 -0600, you wrote:
>I ran across an article today by Jack McDevitt, a current Nebula
>nominee, that eloquently gets to the heart of why we all should read
>science fiction. It even starts out with a library tie in. It can be
>found at
>
>http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/features/eos/why.asp
>
>Even if, or especially if, you don't read science fiction this is a good
>article for all readers' advisors to read.
>--
>Happy reading,
>Di Herald
[removed]@wic.net see the Genrefluent page at
>http://www.genrefluent.com


You're right; it's a good article. I especially liked the comment
about people holding sf in contempt because "they associate it with
'sci-fi,' that relatively mindless form of entertainment which
allows special effects people to have field days."

Of course, the publisher who hosts the website on which McDevitt's
article appears (HarperCollins) itself uses the vile sc*-f* word in
the introductory blurb. As usual. Ugh.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

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