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...readership. The editorial tone seems directed toward a circle as avid as the readers of pulp mystery magazines and as semi-expert as the clientele of Popular Mechanics. A typical introduction to one of the stories might read: "Now here's a story by an old friend of F& SF readers, one of the best young writers in the field. We think it's a story you're really going to like. The plot is involving in the best sort of way, and the end is as stunning as anything we've seen." Just as typically, the story that follows...
This science fiction is popular culture, at once clumsy and expressive. However, it is also the province of an elite; there is a type of "SF" reader who cannot stand the popular designation...
...Francisco indices reflect Subject attended a meeting of the Venceremo s Brigade on-at-Oakland, California. This meeting was covered by SF 2231-S (reliable protect) who stated Subject was one of numerous individuals turned down on their applications to be members of the Fourth Contingent of the Venceremos Brigade. During this meeting, there was no discussion of violence or revolution. San Francisco source personally conversed with Subject and received no indication that she was anything other than the average liberal minded student that is common in the Berkeley area...
...2/5/71, SF 3427-PSI, who is familiar with radical activities in the East Bay Area, advised Subject is completely unknown...
...confer literary status rarely know much about science or technology. Most science-fiction writers, however, browse knowledgeably through specialized journals where many of them find the metaphorical seeds of their novels and short stories. Some, like Isaac Asimov and Arthur Clarke, are trained scientists. Even journeymen practitioners of SF are likely to know more about literature than most novelists and critics know about science. And in the 20th century, ignorance of the fundamentals-and social implications-of physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics constitutes an embarrassing form of illiteracy...