richardt@orstcs.UUCP (richardt) (09/16/85)
Although I'd have to dig out my Black Widower books to give you more evidence, I think I have at least one leg to stand on when I say that at least some of the BW stories are SF. One of the greatest, if not the greatest, editors of science fiction of all time, John W. Cambell, Jr., responded thus when asked to define Science Fiction: "Science Fiction is what Science Fiction Editors buy." Please correct me if I have the source of that qoute wrong, but I would like to suggest that, Since Shawna McCarthy and George Scithers were both SF editors, and of the first new SF magazine to stay afloat in years no less, the BW stories which appeared in IASFM are SF. As F&SF is one of the oldest SF magazines still in business, the BW stories they bought would also qualify as SF. I will admit that I was grossly incorrect on the number of BW stories which were SF. orstcs!richardt "Touche, he said to his opponent, only to notice a widening pool of blood underneath his own feet."