Thought of the day \u2013 is a characteristic of a \u2018literary\u2019 genre SF writer one who writes short fiction? <\/p>\n
(By \u2018genre SF writer\u2019 I exclude those \u2018outsider\u2019 literary authors who happen to write books resembling SF. Like today\u2019s example, Edan Lepucki. Or even the likes of Margaret Atwood, et al.) <\/p>\n
There are many very popular SF authors who write only novels, and I realized today that they are not among my favorite authors, or those whom I consider the most important. (Having this thought after chatting with some neighbors who are \u201csci-fi\u201d fans by very different standards than my own.)<\/p>\n
From Andre Norton to David Weber to J.K. Rowling. <\/p>\n
My favorite SF authors, from Robert Silverberg to Gene Wolfe to Kim Stanley Robinson, have published substantial bodies of short fiction.<\/p>\n
So question for the proverbial Group Mind: are there SF authors who have substantially contributed to the genre and science-fictional thinking, only through novels, without having written much short fiction?<\/p>\n
(Actually, Iain M. Banks jumps to mind. Others?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thought of the day \u2013 is a characteristic of a \u2018literary\u2019 genre SF writer one who writes short fiction? (By \u2018genre SF writer\u2019 I exclude those \u2018outsider\u2019 literary authors who happen to write books resembling SF. Like today\u2019s example, Edan … Continue reading