It's trickier than that, as with most everything. There are a *lot* of people who read science fiction, who don't identify themselves as science fiction *fans*. They just read the stuff.
It was for those folks -- who don't take Locus, and who aren't attached to the community of SF -- that the Science Fiction Bookclub was created. Just like the Mystery Bookclub is for people who read mysteries, but who don't *live* mysteries.
The trouble -- from the point of view of people who do *live* the genre, either because they're hardcore fans, or they're in someway involved professionally -- is that the folks who just read the stuff tend to think that the various book clubs represent all, or the best, or the most important work that's being published in that particular genre.
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It was for those folks -- who don't take Locus, and who aren't attached to the community of SF -- that the Science Fiction Bookclub was created. Just like the Mystery Bookclub is for people who read mysteries, but who don't *live* mysteries.
The trouble -- from the point of view of people who do *live* the genre, either because they're hardcore fans, or they're in someway involved professionally -- is that the folks who just read the stuff tend to think that the various book clubs represent all, or the best, or the most important work that's being published in that particular genre.
...which isn't even close to so.