respectability: who needs it?
Oct. 21st, 2009 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adelaideseanThe latest Mind Meld over at SF Signal asks:
"In your opinion, does literary science fiction and fantasy have mainstream respect? Why, if at all, does it need mainstream approval? What would such approval mean for genre fiction?"
My rant on the subject is fifth down. Let the shit-fight begin. :-)
"In your opinion, does literary science fiction and fantasy have mainstream respect? Why, if at all, does it need mainstream approval? What would such approval mean for genre fiction?"
My rant on the subject is fifth down. Let the shit-fight begin. :-)
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Date: 2009-10-21 11:37 am (UTC)I particularly liked Gene Wolfe's comments as well.
But you're too late - an Australian sf writer has already won the Miles Franklin. George Turner. (Admittedly not for an sf novel though).
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