colbert (12/16/82)
Reading Harpers is as close to dead as you can get and still breath. pyuxjj!colbert Charles Colbert
macrev (12/16/82)
Three years ago I submitted a story (SF) to Harper's. I fully expected a rejection slip, and sure enough I got one. What made this one different from most others was the handwritten note on it: "This is not at all the sort of thing we publish. Have you tried the `little' magazines?" The rejection didn't bother me -- the note did. It smelled of a disease called intellectual elitism. Their recent condemnation of science fiction probably means that the disease is in its terminal stage -- any magazine that would publish such baseless hysteria (and thereby endorse it) has apparently lost its grip on editorial sanity. Mike Lynch mhuxi!macrev