SciFi in General

[Vincent J Varo]

I'm usually just a lurker here on the Pynchon List -- you folks seem to 
be on a level far beyond me with regard to TRP -- and so I just enjoy 
reading everyone's postings.  But the current thread about TRP and SF has 
spurred me to make the following query.  I hope it's not too inappropriate.

When I was younger (teens and early 20's) I was a big SF/Fantasy fan, 
very big on Heinlein, Asimov, Dick, Donaldson, Wolfe, etc.

But when I got to college as an english major and began reading the 
"classic" great books and then would try another SF work, it began to 
seem to me that for the most part, SF writers really couldn't write 
themselves out of the proverbial wet paper bag.  And so my enthusiasm for 
the genre waned incredibly.

I'm curious as to whether anyone else out there feels this way.

Joe
vjvaro at moose.erie.net