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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?
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?
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"The Lost World", #1, October 8, 1995
"Prey", #1, December 15, 2002
...and that's just from a two second look over books in my bookshelf that have NYT blurbs on them. I'm sure there are other bestsellers.
In any case, the NYT bestseller list is less a measure of a book's quality as it is a measure of a book's publisher.