I felt at the time and still feel that such distinctions tend to be arbitrary, a convenient way of pigeonholing books and authors without contributing anything substantive to the discussion.īut I’ve been looking at this question again in recent weeks, wondering whether this decades-long obsession within SF circles with how a book is published and presented might not be a clumsy but nonetheless valid attempt to grapple with more interesting questions. I remember when I was looking back over the experience of chairing the Clarke shadow jury in 2018, I made a personal resolution to try and avoid using the terms ‘literary SF’ and ‘genre SF’ as a way of distinguishing between science fiction published and reviewed as genre fiction and science fiction that happened to be put out by a mainstream literary imprint.
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