Re: [*FSFFU*] vampire recommendations

From: Laur, Erin M. (laur@ROO.SUSQU.EDU)
Date: Fri Oct 31 1997 - 12:33:11 PST


>Complete agreement. For example: _Flowers for Algernon_ , _Ammonite_ (or
>_Slow River_, for that matter), or _Something Wicked This Way Comes_. I'd go
>so far as to say that Brin's title _The Postman_ (which I'm reading now)
>doesn't scream genre...not like _2001: a space odyssey_ or _Caves of Steel_.
>I think the more stock titles are the ones that sci-fi writers get hit with,
>not science fiction writers...
>
Is Flowers for Algernon really considered Science Fiction? I haven't
read it in a real long time, but I don't remember classifying it that
way. Isn't that the novel similar in plot and theme to the movie
Awakenings?
>Erin
>



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