ETA: Anne's rec.

Paul Witcover's column in the November 2009 issue of Locus begins with exploring the difference between an author of the spec fic persuasion writing spec fic, and a mainstream author writing spec fic.

I think his observations are fascinating. I'm wanting to quote them out of context, which would be unhelpful... but it's a gauge of how cool something is. (Can you tell if it still makes sense? If not, then someone else may not find it as cool. But I still think they're cool.) Hmmm.

OTOH, now I understand why people are reading Gravity's Rainbow and discussing it. :D