Genrewonk

August 22, 2008

(via swivet)

Michael Chabon has laid out to the LA Times just how the attitude of the Literati toward genre fiction (“oh, your genre has cooties”) is kind of stupid.

There are a lot of people on both the pretentious literature side (“It was written well so it can’t be science fiction!”) and the pretentious fanboy side (“That motherfucker stole our rocketship!”) that could do to read it.  A guy with a Pulitzer AND a Hugo ought to have some credibility on this point.

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