Don’t condemn science fiction to a ‘genre’ box

Why is science fiction condemned to that somewhat shabby heading of ‘genre fiction’? As if anything that falls within ‘genre’ is of lesser value? That somehow it’s not serious fiction (not that I’m sure what ‘serious fiction’ is). Good fiction affects us emotionally, we identify with the characters and inhabit their world for those hours … Continue Reading →

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