Brian Clegg
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- Aug 7, 2014
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Literary fiction is a label I've never understood - it seems to be basically 'anything that a certain group of literati who vote for fiction prizes like'. I recently came across these remarks in a science fiction book by the excellent Adam Roberts:
More thoughts on this on my blog.
Personally I usually prefer what tends to get labelled genre fiction and would happily do away with the distinction. But what actually tends to happen, as the bottom quote suggests, is that good SF writers, say, are claimed by literary established and washed clean of the 'stink of genre'.

More thoughts on this on my blog.
Personally I usually prefer what tends to get labelled genre fiction and would happily do away with the distinction. But what actually tends to happen, as the bottom quote suggests, is that good SF writers, say, are claimed by literary established and washed clean of the 'stink of genre'.