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Originally Posted by andrew.v.spencer  The above is a simplistic assessment drawn from an insufficent understanding of a journalist, who because of recent novels in sff from "literary" authors is forced to try and understand. So in a half-assed way to make a story, or a point, she says SF is either internally ghettoised, or (and don't worry) it'll be saved by literary authors.
She doesn't know the works of current sf authors, hence they don't get mentioned. Clearly her editor gave her an assignment that was either beyond her, or she couldn't be bothered doing any research. (Hence the half-read, half-digested gunk from Wiki). |
I thought the same while reading that dumb article. Unfortunately our media is littered with such journalists. Sure, if there is a future for mankind then there is a future for science fiction, and any fiction.