Reader’s Corner: Between Science Fiction and Literature

As anybody who has kept up on their bookshelf-browsing recently can determine, the bleed-through of the once impermeable barrier between science fiction /fantasy / horror and literary fiction has ramped up rather sharply in the last few years. Once upon a time, fantastical writing was consigned to a starkly delineated corner. Then, once Jonathan Lethem and Michael Chabon made it safe for the critics to play in the cross-dimensionalsandbox, everybody wanted to get in on it. Eventually even Jon...