if an SF reviewer had suggested that some of the stories in the collection didn't hang together, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Because the reviewer would have been treated with respect, even if he'd been reviewing for some unimportant blog. Knight is being made fun of and his criticisms dismissed because he's Not In Dialogue With The Genre. And that's just silly.
I think we'd be having the inverse discussion: Why Are Some SF Readers So Resistant to Complex and Subtle Literary Fiction.
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Date: 2005-08-15 12:21 pm (UTC)I think we'd be having the inverse discussion: Why Are Some SF Readers So Resistant to Complex and Subtle Literary Fiction.