How we can get a special new "retro" edition of BotNS

Son of Witz · 02 May 2011, 21:54 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 14:54:44 -0700
Subject: (urth) How *we* can get a special new "retro" edition of BotNS
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Agreed.
Genre classifications are useful only for selling stuff to people anyway. They have little other use.

On May 2, 2011, at 2:50 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wolfe, Vance, and CS Lewis are genre-busters. They need a category for themselves. I suppose Burroughs' Mars stories would go there. Maybe some of Bradbury's stuff. The new Doctor Who series tilts more toward Fantasy than SF now IMO.
> 
> On 5/2/2011 3:46 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
>> I'll never understand these catagories.
>> How could BotNS NOT be fantasy? It's a fantastic fantasy.
>> 
>> ~Mike
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