Re: Is there such a thing as Canadian SF?

In article <m23bj27mb8.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mark Atwood  <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx (James Nicoll) writes:
>> by American tastes. A successful Canadian SF author [1] has to sell to
>> Americans. 
>>
>> 	Now, if there was a Canadian source of SF, you could say that
>> it so happens Canadian SF sells to Americans, perhaps because we give
>> them something to aspire, but the fact of the matter is, there is no
>> major Canadian publisher of SF and any Canadian who is published is 
>> published because he fits the perceived needs of an American company.
>
>The current crop of good SF writers from the UK don't seem to be
>twisting themselves up in knots about selling into the US market
>somehow threatening their "Britishness".
>
>How come they can, and y'all up north can't?
	
	I'm not twisting my self up nor is any one else that I 
know. I'll understand if your subpar social skills lead you
to misread the situation.

	There is at least one difference between the relationship
between Scotland and England vs Canada and the US and that's 1707.
Concerns about perfidious Englishmen working some kind of under-
handed annexation deal with Scotland would be just under three
hundred years late (And I have to say, I am quite curious to see
what, if any, celebrations are planned for 2007).

	Interestingly, as near as I can tell, prior to the Act of
Union, 20% of the population of Great Britain lived in Scotland
and now, about 8% do.  
	
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