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“Genre, a concept which could have served as a useful distinction of various kinds of fiction, has been degraded into a disguise for mere value-judgement. The various “genres” are now mainly commercial product-labels to make life easy for lazy readers. lazy critics, and the Sales Departments of publishers.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands