Just decided SF is the only real fiction within modernity. Everything else is a mannered pastoral. SF *can* be pastoral, but can rise above.
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we should discuss this. I'm mocked amongst my literary friends for saying "science fiction is the only literary genre about ideas."
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Go on the attack. Literary fiction is fiction created by draining life of ideas.
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I would broaden it to include other niche genres. Crime fiction often has some of the best social critique.
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agreed, I was about to modify my view to "SF and murder"
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