This is all very interesting that SF writers and readers are accused
of the same elitism they get from so-called "academics" and scholars
outside the SF community. And I'll save the commenting for the one
you addressed (Camille) but I remember a passage from Damon Knight's
THE FUTURIANS that said that studies (I'd like to know which studies
for my own personal edification) have shown that SF fans and writers
were more intelligent and creative than other people. By this
statement your average trekker at a convention fares much better than
the average Joe Punchclock. I also feel equally appalled by the fact
that most of the people in your class had only read STAR TREK and
STAR WARS novelizations and had never read H.G. Wells (one of my
personal all time favorites). I enjoy Star Trek, and to a lesser
extent Star Wars, and I admit the first SF I read as a teenager was
the Pocketbooks STAR TREK: TNG novels, but after reading "serious"
SF, I can't go back to those.
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