Re: Oldest SF not necessarily most dated?

ilya2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 writes:

>While all SF from 30's, 40's and 50's is dated in obvious ways, it is
>1970's SF I find most jarringly dated. 

>Does anyone else feel the same way?

	I wouldn't say the 70s are the most jarringly dated -- each 
decade, really, is dated in its own lovable and hilarious way -- but 
the 70s were blessed with assimilating a lot of gimmicks and bits of 
style left over from the New Wave and the discovery that characters 
could do things even more explicit than kissing and have careers that 
didn't involve slide-rule jockeying and so on.  So many stories from 
that era stand out in lime-green polyester overalls with purple stripes 
against the poodle skirts and legwarmers of other decades.  

-- 
								Joseph Nebus
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