Science Fiction: It’s Not About the Future (Part Two)
Now to continue from where I left off in the post you can find here (based on this post by Joseph Robert Lewis). II. Science Fiction and Its Reflection on the Present Since I have already established that science fiction isn’t actually about the future, it seems prudent to now consider how Lewis’ own logic on […]
Science Fiction: It’s Not About the Future (Part One)
I suppose we have to get used to people saying really idiotic things about science fiction. Whether it’s some blogger telling us that science fiction is dead (again) or a non-reader telling us that science fiction isn’t literature, there seems to always be someone saying something wrong about the genre. This, however, is a new […]
Literary vs. Genre Fiction: The Line? (Part Four)
[The second to last piece in the series. You can read the previous pieces at the following links: Part One; Part Two; Part Three.] 4. What are some common myths that people have about genre fiction in general? I probably should have stuck #3 and #4 together, since this post is going to seem slightly […]
Literary vs. Genre Fiction: The Line? (Part Two)
[And now for the second part. You can read Part One here if you haven’t already.]2. Does the line do more harm than good? Delmater thinks so. She suggests that genre fiction has been ghettoized by being shoved into the backs of book stores, relegated to tiny little sections, or mislabeled to sell more copies […]
Literary vs. Genre Fiction: The Line? (Part One)
Abyss & Apex’s most recent editorial features a series of interesting questions asked by a seventeen-year-old student about the difference between literary and genre fiction. These are questions we’ve heard before that are worth answering, but what I find most curious are the responses by Wendy S. Dalmater (editor of Abyss & Apex). Her responses […]
The Problem With “Great” Science Fiction
Twitter is abuzz today with an io9 article called “What are the ingredients for great science fiction?” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by this, since many of us in the SF community are constantly amused, obsessed, and/or perplexed by the attempt to define the “great” in the title. On some level, it’s probably good […]