Bookslut
Filed under General • 10-11-2008 •
Writing on Bookslut, Paul Kincaid seeks to reassure the voices constantly heralding the “death” of science fiction:
The truth is, we tire of novelty more quickly than we tire of anything else. And because science fiction as a genre lives and dies by novelty, it suffers from this ennui more than any other form of fiction. So if, for whatever reason, science fiction is not challenging the way we understand the world, disrupting our sense of reality, or doing any of the other things we associate with novelty, then our automatic reaction is that the genre is dying. It is all or nothing… Science fiction has always been dying. That’s how it reinvents itself.
Wow. I finally agree with something Kincaid wrote.