When J.G. Ballard died last month, the New York Times, in their obituary, could not deal with the fact that Ballard wrote science fiction, and infamously wrote: But that’s like calling Brave New World science fiction.
Ursula K. Le Guin, who also writes science fiction (while literary critics go into denial), has had enough of that [...]
Ursula K. Le Guin calls the NY Times out on Genre Ignorance
May 9, 2009 – 12:30 am