Sci-fi books serious enough or not WAS: Re: Spotted Dick & School...

[dumbledore11214]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Annemehr" <annemehr at ...> wrote:
>> But it's the "head in the sky" comment that's really telling.  Sci-
fi 
> deals with ideas and what-ifs. Futuristic and otherworldly societies 
> that are Not Like The Way We Live. She sounds like a deathly 
> unimaginative sort.  Besides being a prude.
> <SNIP>


Alla:

Your comment made me think about how sci-fi and fantasy books often 
viewed by literary snobs as not "real" literature, not "serious" enough 
literature, etc.

And of course I saw plenty of bad examples of such books, some of them 
I finished, some of them I did not. But same holds true for "realistic" 
fiction, me thinks. There are plenty of bad ones out there 
unfortunately, so it just always made me wonder how the whole genre can 
be condoned, you know?

It is an aside of course.