(urth) Silk for calde blog: Wolfe thesis

[brunians at brunians.org]

Not in NYC, which dominated the publishing biz, let alone the genre
publishing biz, in the early to mid twentieth. In the NYC where I grew up,
Jews and Catholics were normal: white people were either one or the other,
white Protestants were strange. Protestants is what you expected black
folks to be.


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> Additional thought:
>
> Genre SF is an American phenomenon (in origin). SF is about exoticism. To
> the largely Protestant and Jewish kids who formed the "golden age" writers
> bloc, Catholicism was fairly exotic, Judaism less so, and Protestantism,
> as
> the American mainstream culture, not at all.
>
> --
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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