What SF does that 'literary fiction' can't
Great article on Michael Moorcock :
“We were all attracted to science fiction,” he recalls. “We all saw it as describing our experience in a way that modernist fiction didn’t. It can be crude stuff, but we weren’t in any way slumming, as science-fiction allowed us to write about intellectual ideas in a populist way that modernist fiction didn’t permit.”
[…] “I still see my main audience as a smart populist audience, not a middle-class literary audience,” he says. “I think (literary fiction) writers are as guilty of pleasing their audience as any writer of a popular fiction. Experimental fiction always has its roots in popular fiction anyway. Tough detective stories were around long before Hemingway.”
(Via Neil Gaiman’s Journal )
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