Daily Archives: October 2, 2008

Don’t Call a Smeerp a Rabbit, Either

In the course of eviscerating one of Robert Sheckley’s early stories, James Blish penned (or typed, more probably) the immortal line “they look like rabbits, but if you call them smeerps that makes it science fiction.” This made its way … Continue reading

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