 Re: Science fiction agents
Very well, thanks for asking. Hope you are well also.
I agree that genre fiction has themes. In fact, I think even the simplest piece of writing can have themes at some level. Maybe it is how much themes are foregrounded that determines for critics if something is literary?
There is that snobbishness that seems to prevail amongst critics that genre fiction is substandard in some way, which I have never undersood. It seems there is only a reluctant acknowledgement that genre writing can be good writing. Stepehn King has had to sell millions of his books over about thirty years before he has got some critical recognition. I think someone mentioned The Road by Cormac McCarthy earlier. This seems to have been praised to the skies, but then he had an established repuation in more mainstream areas before he did something a bit sci-fi. If The Road was his first novel I doubt it would have got the same acclaim.
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