emcwilliams%lezah.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (09/13/85)
From: emcwilliams%lezah.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Personally, I think perhaps one should recommend just a nibble of SF to a first time reader, i.e. a short story. There are plenty of them in all the genres listed in previous digests. But it seems more likely to me that giving someone twenty pages or so of a story-type you think they might appreciate is a better approach than trying to feed them 250 (or heavens forbid, 600 pages!!). I know I was more willing to try squid in appetizer-size bits than I would have been if someone had handed me an entree-size portion. Just a thought. ----Ellen McWilliams