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'It drives writers mad': why are authors still sniffy about sci-fi?
- PaulHoule 8y agoOddly, science fiction is one of the ways to escape publishing a book that has "a novel" on the cover that is on the remainder rack for 99 cents. That is, most literature faces indifference and sci-fi is an alternative ghetto to the ghetto of "books nobody cares about".
- cljs-js-eval 8y agoLeave it to the English novelist community to shun the one field that is undergoing a golden age. Seriously, what recent books with any staying power have come out of the non-SF/fantasy genres? Meanwhile, authors like Liu Cixin and Peter Watts are churning out some of the most interesting material around.