I find it hard to understand how anyone could possibly be this dismissive about something they have no experience of, in public?
OK, so some of it is campy adventure pulp, but fortunately someone's collated the best and most long-lived works into the SF Masterworks series for people to pick from.
Phillip K Dick would probably get the same kind of praise as Joyce if he hadn't been ghettoized as "SF".
I meant to comment on "Stirlitz, the Russian James Bond" specifically, not all of Sci Fi (you can see me recommending Russian Sci Fi" in another response here from yesterday. Pretty big mistake on my part and people have been pretty understanding given the misconception!
OK, so some of it is campy adventure pulp, but fortunately someone's collated the best and most long-lived works into the SF Masterworks series for people to pick from.
Phillip K Dick would probably get the same kind of praise as Joyce if he hadn't been ghettoized as "SF".