Science Fiction

[waterspyder]

I was going through a list of the top 100 science fiction books of the 20th Century, and realized that I've read many of them, or other works by the authors on the list and I started to wonder.

What is it about Science Fiction that makes it so stigmatized?

All of the books on that list are thought-provoking. Many are written with a finesse that is completely lost on the contemporary serial novelist. Is there a ton of science fiction out there that I haven't read that is abyssmally bad? Is the average reader incapable of fathoming the concepts that are presented? What is it that makes sci-fi so inaccessible?

Comments

[kali-kali.livejournal.com]

What zenten said. I don't know why genre is so disliked, since "non-genre" fiction, most of the time (to me), is incredibly boring, and I don't see what people like about it. Why read a book about regular everyday life when you could be living it instead? That's why I greatly prefer "genre" fiction, since it is about situations and worlds that I can't experience myself.