| Re: Mundane?
If they were ashamed of being sf writers, why would they call it Mundane SF? Geoff Ryman is hardly ashamed of being a genre writer - The Child Garden is in the SF Masterworks series, after all. And Interzone is doing a Mundane SF special next year - the Mundane SF people wouldn't have agreed to that if they were trying to distance themselves from science fiction.
While Mundane SF almost certainly won't have the commercial impact of exploding spaceships space opera, it will in all likelihood create something that will be fed back into the genre and will enrich it. That's what happened with the New Wave and the Movement.
It often seems written sf is becoming too much like media sf - shallow and all special effects. Maybe we need a clarion call like Mundane SF. |