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james_davis_nicollWhat should go on a Top Ten "In retrospect, what the hell were we thinking" list of once-popular SF?
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Re: inherently more intelligent and open-minded than the general population
Date: 2009-03-15 09:49 pm (UTC)Re: inherently more intelligent and open-minded than the general population
Date: 2009-03-15 10:24 pm (UTC)SLANdering them, as it were.
(Is joke!)
"As demonstrated by the fact that there are people still bitching about New Wave SF decades after it went away."
I think it's because that represented a real turning point in the field. Also the (self-perceived) losers in some conflicts are the ones who can never let the conflict go, e.g. the pro-Confederate types who aren't aware the US Civil War is over.