Comments on: On Positive SF Answers, Attitudes, and Actions http://strangeandhappy.com/2009/12/19/on-positive-sf-answers-attitudes-and-actions/ Science Fiction Author Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:15:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kathryn Cramer http://strangeandhappy.com/2009/12/19/on-positive-sf-answers-attitudes-and-actions/comment-page-1/#comment-5740 Kathryn Cramer Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:41:28 +0000 http://strangeandhappy.com/?p=476#comment-5740 I think you need to be a little more specific to justify the last paragraph. There is not a unified sub-genre of literary SF. Are you talking about Gene Wolfe or Jonathan Lethem? Ursula K. Le Guin or Kelly Link? John Crowley or Doris Lessing? Or are you talking about venues, the various slipstream little mags? Many non-"literary" writers have smaller audiences than those with significant literary reputations. I think you need to be a little more specific to justify the last paragraph. There is not a unified sub-genre of literary SF. Are you talking about Gene Wolfe or Jonathan Lethem? Ursula K. Le Guin or Kelly Link? John Crowley or Doris Lessing? Or are you talking about venues, the various slipstream little mags?

Many non-”literary” writers have smaller audiences than those with significant literary reputations.

]]> By: Jetse http://strangeandhappy.com/2009/12/19/on-positive-sf-answers-attitudes-and-actions/comment-page-1/#comment-5739 Jetse Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:29:20 +0000 http://strangeandhappy.com/?p=476#comment-5739 Jason-- I know you're very busy, with a lot of things, so thanks for this. Anyway, a much longer post -- I actually think about my Twitter stuff as things that one says in a bar; that is, a bit ethereal; while I do put a lot of careful thinking and editing when I put up a post on one of my blogs -- about this on the SHINE blog ( http://shineanthology.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/should-sf-die/ ), reposted on DayBreak Magazine ( http://daybreakmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/should-sf-die/ ) and my personal blog ( http://eclipticplane.blogspot.com/2009/12/should-sf-die.html ) for a more Spartan layout. But in short: yes, I think literary SF needs a 'we can do it' attitude in order to reach a bigger audience. The art-house film is a very apt comparison: highly regarded by a small in-crowd, hugely ignored by the world at large. Then again, certain people feel very comfortable in the ivory tower of an isolated ghetto. Jason–

I know you’re very busy, with a lot of things, so thanks for this.

Anyway, a much longer post — I actually think about my Twitter stuff as things that one says in a bar; that is, a bit ethereal; while I do put a lot of careful thinking and editing when I put up a post on one of my blogs — about this on the SHINE blog ( http://shineanthology.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/should-sf-die/ ), reposted on DayBreak Magazine ( http://daybreakmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/should-sf-die/ ) and my personal blog ( http://eclipticplane.blogspot.com/2009/12/should-sf-die.html ) for a more Spartan layout.

But in short: yes, I think literary SF needs a ‘we can do it’ attitude in order to reach a bigger audience. The art-house film is a very apt comparison: highly regarded by a small in-crowd, hugely ignored by the world at large.

Then again, certain people feel very comfortable in the ivory tower of an isolated ghetto.

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