Comments on: Here’s an article all booklovers should read https://glendalarke.com/2009/09/heres-article-all-booklovers-should/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:31:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Helen V. https://glendalarke.com/2009/09/heres-article-all-booklovers-should/#comment-20480 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:40:32 +0000 #comment-20480 It sounds to me as if this gentleman doesn't actually visit standard bookshops if he thinks that spec fiction novels are shut away somewhere, not to mention how insulting it is for science fiction readers to be described as 'weird'. I am affronted.

]]> By: Hendo https://glendalarke.com/2009/09/heres-article-all-booklovers-should/#comment-20479 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:20:03 +0000 #comment-20479 Heh, no one tell Margaret Atwood that she's been writing science fiction novel, I think she'd off herself 😉

Granted, there are some weird and wonderful sci-fi fans out there, but not all its readers dress up as Klingons at conventions.

I suspect the reason for sci-fi's absence, apart from the snobbery that Tsana mentioned, is the much talked about identity crisis. It seems to be driving a lot of established sci-fi authors away to other genres.

]]> By: Tsana Dolichva https://glendalarke.com/2009/09/heres-article-all-booklovers-should/#comment-20478 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:53:17 +0000 #comment-20478 Bwah? "Not aware of science fiction"? That sounds to me more of a product of said English professor being stuck in his own little word of stuffy literature than an inditement of science fiction. Where does he think Hollywood is getting it's SF movie fodder?

*sigh*

There's no helping some people, especially not literary types when it comes to genre fiction.

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