The Underrated, Universal Appeal of Science Fiction

[alice malice]

While I agree with the thesis, the author's attempt to defend it is lame.
Sure, it's a short essay, an internet opinion piece, whatever, and sure
it's an important  argument, one that we've been listening to and having
for a very long time, and one that Pynchon makes, one that Lessing makes,
one that Shakespeare and Orwell would find sympathetic, but the author only
manages to preach to the choir. Btw, genre has more than two meanings and
it makes little sense to focus on the marketing ones and ignore the
literary ones if one wants to help people understand how science fiction
has been abused by the abuse of genre(s).

On Saturday, April 19, 2014, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm reminded of this quote from Bruce Sterling: "If poets are the
> unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its
> court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and
> scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish
> motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless."
> On Apr 19, 2014 10:18 PM, "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','against.the.dave at gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
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>> http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/04/the-underrated-universal-appeal-of-science-fiction/360627/
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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
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