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Oh, Meg. You’re one of us.

October 7th, 2009

On Monday, John Howell posted an excellent article about the ridiculousness of the SFF “ghetto”:

“For a genre that produces some of the most intelligent, thought provoking, creatively challenging works imaginable, it’s hard to understand how they could be overlooked so aggressively and consistently for so long.”

Especially interesting to me is that this continues, considering that the top-grossing films of the past several years are all, you know, SFF.

Also interesting: to read that Brian Aldiss was informed (when he was on Desert Island Disks) “…that SF readers were nerds who were poor and could not ‘get a woman’.” Rea-lly.

One Response to “Oh, Meg. You’re one of us.”

  1. Eden Says:
    October 7th, 2009 at 11:13 am

    The movie-book dichotomy makes me want to tear my hair out. Ask people if they like science fiction, they mime vomiting on you. Ask them if they liked, say, District 9, or Zombieland, or Lord of the Rings, they hump your leg with praises.

    This is why it is so imperative that we bring sexy back to SFF. It’s a revolution!

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