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October 21st, 2008
| (Anonymous) | 11:21 am
Not all academics skin stories and stake them out. I am a historian. I've been reading sf since I was 12 years old, and as I have posted on the other site, if I wanted validation I'd have stuck to American religious history.
I don't know of any academic in sf, under 40, who wasn't a fan first. Certainly, no one who wanted validation before that would have worked on sf. Most of the older academics I know of had to fight very hard in their academies.
How the hell can I encroach on something I am a fan of? Or are we now deciding that if I write criticism in a fanzine it's ok, but if I send it to a journal, or publish it with Cambridge I've suddenly gaffeated?
fjm
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