Ursula K. Le Guin calls the NY Times out on Genre Ignorance

Bill Humphries — Sat, 09 May 2009 07:30:13 +0000

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 noise.

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Ursula K. Le Guin calls the NY Times out on Genre Ignorance