AtD and more: Fredric Jameson on SF

[Monte Davis]

"Science fiction is not the only mass-cultural genre (or subgenre) whose
relationship to ‘high literature’ and to modernism in particular presents
problems. It is as easy to feel that James and Wells are incompatible as it
is to reject the notion that Dostoevsky (let alone *Oedipus Rex*) has any
family relationship with the detective story. When we come to *Orlando* or
Pynchon, the conviction of incompatibility remains firm, but the arguments
become more difficult to sustain, or even to articulate. Experimental
literature ought to share generic features with its more popular cousins,
but it doesn’t; Cormac McCarthy and Jonathan Lethem are not of the same
genre as Philip K. Dick, however long Margaret Atwood managed to ‘pass’."

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n17/fredric-jameson/in-hyperspace
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