[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> With all due respect to Mr. Ellison, his personal attack on Charlie Brown and
> Locus is hardly necessary. He has condemned both without even giving either a
> chance to print the correction in the first place. If Brown made a mistake,
> he made a mistake, and should be allowed to fix it first, before being
> condemned for not doing so.
You're right. But it's possible that there's a history of mistakes not
being corrected in a manner acceptable to those affected by them that
may make Ellison not *totally* out of line. I don't know enough about
Brown to comment either way.
Ellison probably could have sent out the same message without dissing
Brown so much.
> Locus may not be the NY Times, but so what? It's a very useful (if not
> perfect) source of SF news.
It's the BEST way to find out what's coming out from various publishers,
and when. I get it for that more than anything else. The interviews
are interesting, and when there's a death of a very prominent author,
the comments by the living who knew the deceased give a nice picture of
a personality.
Of course, I'm way behind in going through the Upcoming Books list most
recently published, and I don't even want to think about the backlog of
the other stuff in there that I read (or used to read, before the
morning sickness with Sammy caused interesting effects such as nausea
from the smell of the ink they use, and of course I haven't been caught
up since then).
Julia
