Why don't we love science fiction?

[Dave Monroe]

The Sunday Times
December 2, 2007

Why don't we love science fiction?

The British are sniffy about sci-fi, but there is nothing artificial
in its ability to convey apprehension about the universe and ourselves

Bryan Appleyard

In the 1970s, Kingsley Amis, Arthur C Clarke and Brian Aldiss were
judging a contest for the best science-fiction novel of the year. They
were going to give the prize to Grimus, Salman Rushdie's first novel.
At the last minute, however, the publishers withdrew the book from the
award. They didn't want Grimus on the SF shelves. "Had it won,"
Aldiss, the wry, 82-year-old godfather of British SF, observes, "he
would have been labelled a science-fiction writer, and nobody would
have heard of him again." ...

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