Your Science Fiction leader - I like it! 

Hi M, I've just been looking at the past work you did on the Science Fiction leader, and I think it's really good, and should not have been so thoroughly replaced by something far less elegant.  If you've been watching that article, you may have seen that I have been trying myself (With Hayford Peirce's help) to create a readable but useful leader (before I went back through the historical versions), and I have essentially highlighted the idea of the novum (the novelty, the change, the difference, the strangeness) that you spoke about, although I got this from a rather different source, and have possibly put it less poeticaly.  I see you are an Australian academic, so I may have bumped into you on some campus or other.  I'd be very pleased if you would come back and help me with the sci-fi leader or heap scorn on it or whatever.  See ya.