Like my roommate, Charlie Williams, just said, good writing is good writing, no matter the genre. Same for bad writing. Literary types who think they can saunter in and write the Great American Sci-fi/horror/fantasy novel without knowing how things work are arrogant morons.

This is nothing new, CJ. Literary snobbery has been around a long time, and mainstream writers are always trying to reinvent the wheel, usually badly. A girl I dated back in the Eighties thought Atwood was brilliant, but I found “Handmaid’s Tale” derivative of a raftload of dystopian sf novels that had been around…