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   From: mzenier@eskimo.com   
      
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   Bill Patterson   wrote:   
   >On Oct 1, 8:24�am, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"   
   > wrote:   
   >> Matthias Warkus wrote:   
   >> > Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) schrieb:   
   >> >> highfalutin' "lit'ry" SF writer of the sort that has a loud, outspoken   
   >> >> following but really isn't READABLE by ordinary people.   
   >>   
   >> > More "ordinary people" read "lit'ry" fiction than SF, you know.   
   >>   
   >> � � � � Outside of school? I doubt it. Unless you're classing   
   >Tom Clancy, John   
   >> Grisham, and romance novels as lit'ry, which I don't.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Sems to me you could work it from the other direction; if you   
   >characterize a particular work as "lit'ry sf" -- let's say Dahlgren,   
   >for example, or V -- and that work has a much longer or broader sales   
   >history than the circle of sf readers, then it might be possibel to   
   >say that at least some lit'ry sf is read by "more ordinary people"   
   >than genre readers.  I dont know if that works for either Dahlgren or   
   >V, but just used examples that would make the logical pattern work if   
   >the facts were consonant (ie., I chose books that there's pretty wide   
   >agreement are both "lit'ry" and "sf")   
      
   But you'll have to subtract out the assigned course reading.   
   (I've seen piles of Dhalgren in the Engilsh Lit. section of a   
   local university's bookstore textbook section).   
      
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