On a related note

[james_davis_nicoll]

What should go on a Top Ten "In retrospect, what the hell were we thinking" list of once-popular SF?

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

You don't know much about the general population, do you?

[jamesenge.livejournal.com]

Social groups don't select for superior qualities; they just tend to think they do. For every idiocy in the general population, I can find you a correspondence in every human microcosm, including slandom.