... Art (Part One) Many literature professors may hold 'genre fiction' in contempt as 'rule driven' ... 39;pulp fiction.' Here, 'literature' is simply another genre or cluster of genres (the academic mid-life crisis, the ... ;t.Hear, hear. In my experience, film professors are less likely to ghettoize genre works. (I had one class where we watched everything from Dancer in the ...

... , I've come to an interesting "revelation," if you will. Science fiction and fantasy are part of our culture as much as something like math or English; they are unconscious elements present in ... about that for a minute and bask in the amazing sensation of that feeling. Science fiction and fantasy have become so integral to the social landscape of the U.S. and other countries, that ...

An article in the Guardian says, don’t patronise popular fiction by women. Patronise in the negative sense, not the positive sense. The attitude talked about here, where women will read books aimed at women OR men, whereas men refuse to even try books written by or marketed to women, is so common as to be systematic.

Sue Barton, Visiting Nurse by Helen Dore Boylston Genre: fiction, romance On my TBR list?: Yes Book 3 of 7 Blurb: In this installment of the series, Sue Barton has graduated from her nursing program and has been accepted as one of the famous Henry Street nurses in NYC. She loves her job, but will she choose it over marriage to Dr. ...

This seems to be a debate that crops up every now and then. They've been chatting about it over at Westeros and now Mark Charan Newton and Dan Abnett have got together to chew the fat on this topic over at Ecstatic Days. Both discussions are well worth a look and browse.Do I stand anywhere on this? I'm probably preaching to the converted but running this blog has taught me not to turn my ...

... which is a thought-provoking essay regardless of your preexisting feelings on so-called genre fiction. All silliness aside, it was great to meet Robinson and thank him for ... that swirl through cocktail parties drifted us apart I enjoyed chatting with him about the ghettoization of genre. Unfortunately, I never got the chance to engage him on a point that many of his critics have focused on, which is ...

... kind of traffic. AstoundingTales.com in its heyday did as well. The article also indicates something that I have said before: Most of the readers of genre magazines are authors who want to sell stories, rather than readers looking to read. There is some intersection between these two groups. I still feel that genre fiction is subject to the laws of thermodynamics. and will sink into ...

... of what these best-selling authors say comes up each and every day at my library. What is genre fiction and what is literary fiction? Who decides? What are the criteria? Does it matter? (See the comment ... out if a book should be in our fantasy section or if we should catalog it with the general fiction. Exasperated I said to Kathy, "Let's just take away our sections and just file all ...

... was a treat. So, while I do find myself frustrated when I see The Lathe of Heaven in the general fiction section, I also understand that my complaint is not with the booksellers or even the publishers or authors, but with a pervasive view that SF, and genre fiction in general, is somehow inferior to mainstream fiction. If the booksellers are not the ...

... much farther both professionally and personally than he ever imagined. I love when this happens to characters in genre fiction. Rather than simply solve the problem, move on and repeat, Anton learns from each major event in his life, which causes him to grow as a person. I find that far too often, the characters in genre fiction simply don't change from one book to the ...