Friday, August 31, 2007

Literary snobulation

Is SF worthless twaddle?

Well, if you consider the works of Anthony Burgess, JG Ballard, Margaret Attwood, Doris Lessing, CS Lewis, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, William Morris, Samuel Butler, Sir Thomas More, Jack London, H G Wells, Mary Shelley, Jonathan Swift and Homer to be worthless rubbish, then I guess it is.

(However - you can usually guarantee that any three volume fantasy book with a map in the endpapers really will be twaddle without reading it.)

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