As Others See Us Of The Day

[coalescent]

Noodling around on Amazon, I stumble upon the paperback of Lydia Millet's Oh Pure and Radiant Heart. It does not say "nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award" on the cover; instead, the uncredited "synopsis" concludes:

"Oh Pure and Radiant Heart" is no more a SF novel than "The Time-Traveller's Wife". Instead, it is a powerful and original fiction of responsibility and guilt, today's America, and the peculiar terrors of our nuclear world.

However, customers who bought this item also bought Gradisil, Nova Swing, and Hav (and the paperback for the latter carries an Ursula le Guin blurb, which suggests they're not ignoring the sf market, at least). Ha.

Comments

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

Can I go slightly on record as saying right now that if I were a publisher looking at our sales figures right now I'd want to class anything as Sci-Fi (or crime, or romance or any genre) rather than general or literary fiction.

Because the latter two are not growing areas in sales...

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Can I go slightly on record

How very accomplished of you.

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

Hey, I even visited stores today.

(my ongoing project to use fewer needless qualifiers needs some work)

[twic.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Perhaps you could donate them to Graham? He seems to get through a lot.

-- tom

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

I think some have said that, perhaps.