The Guardian Considers Science Fiction
Filed under Reviews • 09-01-2008 •
Sam Jordison has been writing about the collision of science fiction and mainstream literature in The Guardian.
1. Why Do Critics Still Sneer At Sci-Fi?
“Science fiction writers are dismissed by the mainstream, but for mind-expanding ideas and sheer narrative excitement the genre is hard to beat”
2. Literary Apocalypse Now, And Then
“So, novelists’ visions of the future are looking very bleak at the moment. What’s new?”
3. Reading Sci-Fi For Pleasure
Tags: Literature • Media • SF“As soon as someone writes a really good sci-fi book it nearly always seems to get reclassified as something else.”
How can people not take SF seriously with writers such as Asimov?