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From: dbd@gatekeeper.vic.com
Doug wrote:
>(Is the original question credible? Is it really possible that a
>reader of science fiction could be unaware of Heinlein?!)
Short form: Oh heck yes.
(Longer form: There's Way Too Much SF out there these days for any given
new reader to be immediately able to pick out "this small section of the
store's shelves / the library's collection is Classic and Basic and a
Foundation For What Came After and I have to read it FIRST or else miss
out on knowing the background". So a new reader of SF is not immediately
gonna pick up on 'have ... to read ... Heinlein!', necessarily. Even some
people who've been reading it for a while fall under this. Sideways example:
I got flabbergasted in my late teens when I found out that my two-years-younger
brother had NEVER read Alice in Wonderland at all... and we, and my sister,
were voracious devourers of library books, and he did read some SF and
fantasy.)
Dave
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