Similarly, many of her readers probably don't like the idea of reading SF
It's hardly surprising, when SF (and fantasy, and detective fiction, and romance, for that matter) has a history of producing tens of thousands of novels of going-through-the-motions crap. Which isn't to say that genre-less fiction doesn't suffer from the same problem, just that as soon as you've named it, you can identify which motions it is going through and make a conscious decision to avoid it.
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Date: 2003-07-26 11:03 am (UTC)Similarly, many of her readers probably don't like the idea of reading SF
It's hardly surprising, when SF (and fantasy, and detective fiction, and romance, for that matter) has a history of producing tens of thousands of novels of going-through-the-motions crap. Which isn't to say that genre-less fiction doesn't suffer from the same problem, just that as soon as you've named it, you can identify which motions it is going through and make a conscious decision to avoid it.