From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Jan 06 2003 - 23:11:08 MST
> >US newspapers of the mid fifties were, like HUAAC, exceptional for their
dedication to the truth.
> ##Gee Damien, where did that come from? ... I
> still remember the drum of attacks on McCarthy by my favorite SF
> magazine.
> The list goes on and on.
The list doesn't go on and on. The point that's invariably made about the
role of GALAXY and some of the other English-language sf magazines of the
fifties is their near *uniqueness* in standing (via allegory) against
propaganda, bigotry and media silence, as was sf in the Soviet Union then
and later.
Damien Broderick
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