
To the Francisco-Angeles Daily Chronicle's Editorial Board (reprinted here with the author's permission):

I'm emailing you today to tell you how deplorable and despicable your editorial staff is for deigning to review that new 'Molten Alloy and Torn Lace' <em>thing</em>. I can't even call it a novel. It's more like vomit in written form.

Are you aware that children read your publication? Your Style section is displayed in ten-foot block letters on the screens of countless town squares across this fine country. Did you forget that? Can you imagine how many impressionable young minds have been corrupted by being exposed to this horrible, horrible filth? To even describe some of the passagesthe things <em>automatons </em>and <em>humans </em>are doingis grossly inappropriate. Furthermore, to imply that there are people out there actually indulging in this sort of thing <em>in real life</em>Well, Messirs and Madams, the world may have gone crazy but I see no reason to wallow in it.

This is not the Incorporated San Francisco-Los Angeles Metroplex Area that I know. I grew up in a city of humans, built by humans, for humans, with a rich and vibrant human history going back almost a millenium. I can't believe the kind of smut this place allows nowadays. In the city <em>I</em> know, a man paying for back-alley services knew it was coming from a human being with <em>thoughts </em>and <em>feelings</em>, not some automaton doxy with WD-40 on its hands. It is unnatural, it is immoral, and I will simply not stand for it being splashed across the front of a once-respectable publication.

I demand that you retract the review and immediately post an apology to your readership.

Sincerely, Dolores Putnam
