More on Mary Sue

abigailnus abigailnus at yahoo.com
Thu May 29 06:12:14 UTC 2003


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, YUkon28209 <yukon28209 at s...> 
wrote:
> If anyone's interested... I recently read a great article available 
> online at http://www.merrycoz.org/papers/MARYSUE.HTM, called "150 
> Years of Mary Sue," that suggests these type of stories have been 
> around a lot longer than Star Trek. Some of the early science fiction 
> stories written by fans in the '30s through '50s (like "Slan") spring 
> to mind.

This looks like the article that I was thinking of, the one I cribbed my description of 
Mary Sue from.  If anyone's interested, I heartily recommend it.  However, the URL has 
a comma at the end which needs to be erased to access the article.

Abigail





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