When Orbital won the Booker prize there was a lot of talk about it being "the first winner set in space", as if they were trying to avoid saying "Sci-Fi novel" (because Sci-Fi is forbidden in literary circles). Now i've read it, i can say that it is a Sci-Fi novel; in particular because there is a crewed moon mission.
That's also the reason i read one "speculative fiction" novel last year. It's Oryx and Crake. Speculative fiction is when Margaret Atwood writes a Sci-Fi novel.
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@drj It really pisses me off that "scifi" is treated as some kind of dirty word
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@howtophil yup, yup. This is all prompted by an adjacent thread discussing how "pillow talk" (sexy time) pollutes serious novels (in the minds of the critics that write for the Times Literary Supplement).
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@drj Fucking puritans
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