On his site, ConceptualFiction.com, Ted Gioia asks, “Did sci-fi writers from the 1940s and 1950s anticipate the future of serious literature better than the so-called “serious writers” or, for that matter, the highbrow critics?”
Yes.
This essay is dear to my heart, as one who loves Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities just as much as Ursula K. le Guin’s Earthsea books. (Also as one who has an MFA in poetry, and an English literature degree, whose favorite magazine is Realms of Fantasy.) Luckily, just because critics have made artificial dominions and divvied up the turf in various ways doesn’t mean writers and readers aren’t free to roam. Unless they want to write about what they are reading and try to get tenure, of course.
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