> At 06:29 PM 11/25/97 -0500, Barbara Benesch <BJBenesch@AOL.COM> wrote:
> >Okay, seriously. I'm very glad you posted this, Lindy, because I'd been
> >becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the SF/Sci-Fi distinctions, just
> >like I've always been uncomfortable with the "hard"/"soft" science
> >distinctions. Personally, I think it's all a lot of hooey.
>
In a message dated 97-11-26 12:01:05 EST, Neil Rest wrote:
> Barbara, if you were talking about Tepper, LeGuin and, say, _Looking
> Backward_, and someone chimed in wanting to know which Terminator movie
you
> thought was better, you might well consider them off-topic, and perhaps
> even of less discriminating taste. Amplify that sort of thing by a couple
> of orders of magnitude.
Neil, I can understand how when people were trying to pass "Attack of the
Rutabega That Ate Albequerque" as comparable to Tolkien in the science
fiction world, the distinction between "real" science fiction and "not-real"
science fiction was important. However, as a 24-year-old, I've never thought
of science fiction as *not* being a viable and legitimate form of literature.
Perhaps that's the difficulty here.
Otherwise, I guess you'd have to classify me as one of the people "of less
discriminating taste" because as well as enjoying Tepper, et al., I enjoyed
_both_ Terminator movies, and further I enjoy other (what I presume you would
call) "less real" science fiction books, movies, and television shows.
Barbara Benesch
BJBenesch@aol.com
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