Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 15:38:27 -0600
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Psycho-lit


>Sorry, Howard, but I just couldn't resist doing a little interpretative
>violence to your post (all in good fun--one needs to attack one's colleagues
>on occassion).  In any event, I agree with much of what you say, of course.
>
>As one notable critic of sf has stated (I've forgotten his name--F.
>Jameson?--as well as the exact wording of the quote): science fiction offers
>a particularly interesting representation of our present conjuncture as the
>identifiable past of it's [science fiction's] projected future present.

I don't know. I don't find the present as past in Herbert or Sterling, and
only peripherally in Gibson. Their past is our future.
g