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- Title: Introduction: Not-Mundane Not-Science-Fiction (Karen Joy Fowler) (Work Overview)
- Author : Brian Attebery
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
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AT THE 2008 MEETING OF THE SCIENCE FICTION RESEARCH ASSOCIATION IN Lawrence, Kansas, guest writer Karen Joy Fowler commented that even though most of her work is not sf, she seems to write a sort of non-sf that is most fully appreciated by readers of the genre. This is, she pointed out, probably not a good marketing strategy. Though Fowler was commenting on her own work, I think she might have identified a real and important category of contemporary literature. Her description fits her novels such as The Jane Austen Book Club (2004) and Wit's End (2008), and stories such as "What I Didn't See" (2003) and "Always" (2007). Those two stories won Nebula Awards even though neither has obvious sf content (leading to controversy over both awards). The description also applies, more or less, to books such as Geoff Ryman's 253 (1998) and The King's Last Song (2006); Molly Gloss's Wild Life (2000); Ursula Le Guin's Searoad (1991) and Lavinia (2008); and John Crowley's The Translator (2002) and Four Freedoms (2009)--in other words, to some of the best fiction of the past couple of decades. But what does it mean to say that readers of one form are the best appreciators of a story apparently written in some entirely other form?
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