Question of the day

[james_davis_nicoll]

Should SFWA consider opening membership to writers of comic books and graphic novels?

[Wow, that was a dull way to frame that. Please add "Why or why not?]

Inspired by a discussion on one of the blogs that I read regularly, which I will not name for the moment so that people will not run over there and have their reactions influenced by the discussions that have already occured.

Comments

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Perhaps SFWA should narrow its membership criteria rather than broadening it. Go back to requiring yearly renewal of credentials. Only credit work which meets a strict definition of "hard science" for science fiction or "hard magic" for fantasy. Take points off if a story contains scientific or magical errors.

Make it really rigorous, and there will be no one to cause trouble in SFWA.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Except that you have stirred up a bar-brawl with the persistence of the great red spot by mentioning "requal"...