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echo: writing
to: JACK RUTTAN
from: SALLY SPRINGETT
date: 1998-02-07 13:06:00
subject: Books

 CJ> To make it somewhat on-topic (and thereby avoid the
 > hassle of netmail), if my guess is right and the name of the
 > initial can be related to time-keeping, his importance was less
 > as a writer than as the publisher who established a market for
 > science fiction *books* (as opposed to magazine sf).
 JR> No! Avram Davidson, not August Derleth! (People will be pissed
 JR> off reading this, and not knowing what's going on. Is Davidson
 JR> Golden Age enough? I've heard that everyone's Golden Age is
 JR> fifteen years old.)
I was _sure_ it was Derleth. Davidson lived in NYC and was much too
young (he's MY age) but I guess people can change.
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