Yeah, exactly, & I'm with him on this, as I tend to shift from one
so-called genre to another without really noticing any basic difference
(although Science Fiction can be seen to work at its best in a certain
way within the larger non-realism realm, by working the realism trope
so hard in its imaginary).
I tend to enjoy anything that strays from hard core 'realism' or
'naturalism' (but it doesnt have to stray that far).
Doug
On 28-Apr-07, at 7:52 AM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> From what he's saying, China's definition of weird is about collapsing
> categories rather than narrowing the genre - SF and Fantasy and the
> fantastic all come under that rubric. You can see why - then he can
> put M.
> John Harrison next to Bronte and undercut a number of genre snobberies
> (which I assure you cut both ways).
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