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“Is "Sci-Fi" a stigma?Wired News describes in this article (http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/news/2007/04/scifighetto_0412) how publishers try to avoid labeling a book as Science Fiction. They're afraid that the book will not be taken "seriously" if it's considered a sci-fi.Your thoughts? ”
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“I think that Sci-Fi is a double-edged sword a lot of people won't take it at face value but on the other hand Sci-Fi makes it a possible read for hundreds of Sci-Fi fans who will take it to the next level and live in the fictional world. I mean any good sci-fi book spawns thousands of spin offs or sequels. I think that the seriousness of sci-fi left when it melded with fantasy but their will always a symbolic realism in sci-fi books and I personally enjoy how sci-fi books talk about relevant problems of today or classical conflicts in a more interesting way then just writing the book in the here and now. ”
“For a number of years, a friend of mine has been encouraging me to dip a toe into Sci-Fi and fantasy. I always resisted, for no good reason, other than loving my mysteries. I guess I thought Sci-Fi was the natural place for young boys, and I'm neither. However, I've finally tried it and am enjoying the experience. I wonder how many readers react like me to the label. And I have to be honest, I picked up and read "Children of Men" because I'd read and liked a lot of P. D. James. And as for Margaret Atwood, some of her later works clearly have Sci-fi components. The Blind Assasin has a science fiction story woven within the main story, and I've heard that Oryx and Crake is of that flavor. ”
“That's a very interesting article and sadly, true. There are several authors who flat out deny writing science fiction. When Margaret Atwood was questioned about The Handmaid's Tale. Here's how she responded:Q: "It's hard to pin down a genre for this novel. Is it Science Fiction?"A: "No, it certainly isn't Science Fiction. Science Fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. That isn't this book at all. The Handmaids Tale is Speculative Fiction in the genre of Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty Four. Nineteen Eighty Four was written not as Science Fiction but as an extrapolation of life in 1948. So, too, The Handmaids Tale is a slight twist on the society we have now."”
