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Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.
When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row.
