Re: Marge Piercy

From: Laura Quilter (lauramd@uic.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 28 1997 - 09:34:41 PST


(forwarding this for someone - Sean, I'll fix your account ASAP )

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Nicola,
        About the "rant": are you a Dennis Miller fan?

-Sean Johnston

On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Nicola Griffith wrote:

> Robin, yes, that would be an interesting question for Piercy, plus this one:
> How does she feel about her publishers (in the UK, anyhow) refusing to
> acknowledge that she *does* write SF; and refusing (or perhaps just
> neglecting) to add to her bio the fact that she has won the Arthur C. Clarke
> Award. This is something I'd also like to ask Theodore Roszak, whose MEMOIRS
> OF ELIZABETH FRANKENSTEIN won last year's Tiptree award, but whose
> publishers, again, made no mention of that fact when the book was reprinted
> in trade paperback format. I get so tired of this ridiculous double-think on
> the part of literary snobs: SF is no good, therefore if this SF book *is*
> good, it's not SF. End of rant.
>
> Nicola
>
> Nicola Griffith
> http://www.america.net/~daves/ng/
>



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