Re: Genre Study 2: Fantasy


10 May 1995 03:55:58 GMT

In article <3ni408$lfu@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Gerry Kevin Wilson <whizzard@uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>the Arabs. 1001 Arabian Nights is required reading. You'd be astounded at
>the stories in this so-called kiddie's book. Some pretty steamy stuff in
>there!

Required reading? I hope not. It's huge! Has anybody here actually
read the whole thing? It has 1001 stories in it! It's, like, 10 volumes!
More than half of them are about sex.

I don't like to be negative, but my main reaction to the science fiction
post is that trying to enumerate possible plots is not a very useful
approach to science fiction.

Phil Goetz@cs.buffalo.edu