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That's quite true. My favorite SF author, Gene Wolfe, is sometimes found in the Literature section in bookstores. On the other hand, 99% of SF does not have mu
by akvadrako 9y ago
That's quite true. My favorite SF author, Gene Wolfe, is sometimes found in the Literature section in bookstores.
On the other hand, 99% of SF does not have much literary merit, even the well regarded stuff, so if you're interested in the cross-section, Literature might be the more reasonable department to file it under.
- hardlianotion 9y agoWe can quarrel about the merit of most fiction, literary fiction included.
- akvadrako 9y agoI said "literary merit", not merit in general. Sci-fi is very much not about the words used and how they're put together. The authors that can combine the two are very rare - Wolfe, Douglas Adams, Ursula K. Le Guin, and often Russian authors, though that might be from the translation too.