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SCI-FIDELITY
I've lived on a steady science-fiction diet since I saw The Day the Earth Stood Still at age 9, and I'm happy to see your magazine recognize SF's arrival into the spotlight (#251, Dec. 2). SF is more
than escapist, high-tech thriller material; it's a genre of real hope. I've got a theory that Gene Roddenberry harbored a vision that
spin-offs from the original Star Trek series would proliferate until
the 23rd century, when the crew of the first Starship Enterprise would watch re-runs of the show on their way to where none has gone before.
Joey Victor
Bellefonte, Pa.
Thank you for your article on The X-Files and David Duchovny. Mulder's humor, known on-line as Mulderisms, is an important part of the show for us avid X-Philes. I look forward to more of the same in future episodes.
Paula Myers
Fremont, Calif.
It was disturbing to see things like this in your science-fiction issue: ''The word in Tinseltown these days is: Slap your leads into space suits, throw in a few goofy-looking aliens, add a sprinkling of
computer-generated effects, and you can start counting down to blastoff.'' Science fiction is not about bug-eyed monsters and zap guns, but rather ideas. While any conventional story could be set in
a science-fiction context, SF's real strength — indeed, its mission — is to go beyond what we know is possible to what we think is possible.
Paul Hahn
St. Louis
Give me time travel and starships over the evening news any day.
Lynne Dickey
High Hill, Mo.
HUGHES MUSE
Two of my all-time favorite movies are John Hughes' Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. I remember watching Sixteen Candles when I was in junior high and high school each year on my birthday. Hughes' movies defined our generation, and he is sure entitled to the
honor of being one of Hollywood's greatest moviemakers.
Carrie Jerome
Moorhead, Minn.
FACES OF AIDS
Thank you for once again running the annual ''Faces of AIDS.'' I am always amazed by the number of creative artists we lose each year — not to mention the legions of people that don't fit that description.
Looking over the faces, I think of the songs that will never be sung; plays that will never be staged; books that will never be read; and leaders that will not be there to guide us. I find it ironic that we lost Elizabeth Glaser during this international awareness time. She was a great leader who fought with dignity and grace.
Joyce Dixon
Claxton, Ga.
SEEING RED
I am undoubtedly not the only person outraged by the odious opinions expressed by Pat Cousins in his letter on ''ginger-haired
people.'' To say that ''many people view ginger-haired people with suspicion, bordering on repulsion'' is the nastiest sort of bigotry, just as objectionable as if he were referring to black people, Jewish
people, or anyone. So Cousins thinks Caruso should spare us his appearance? I think Cousins should spare us his hateful opinions.
Julie Wrigley Smith
Hoopeston, Ill.
