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1/28/09

Science Fiction--hiding in the mainstream shelves

From today's Guardian Book Blog comes an interesting little article--"Science Fiction--the genre that dare[s] not speak its name." The author addresses the fact that "Mainstream authors and publishers seem happy to appropriate the tropes of science fiction but not the label itself." Here's the link. Shades of the ongoing vague rumbling about YA science fiction and fantasy, lurking unlabeled in that section...

2 comments:

  1. The link isn't working for me. Can you repost? I'm interested to read.

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  2. Fixed! Thanks for letting me know.

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