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Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Sat May 24 15:33:52 UTC 2008


On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> I asked you not to tell me that! Besides, Poul Anderson, the author of
> one of my favorite stories, "The Un-Man," was a science-fiction
> writer, not a literary giant whose style affected the usage of others.
>
> -Wilson

False dichotomy! He was both.

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Mark Mandel

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