(I meant to say that I thought one of the reasons there's a pretty heavy overlap between mystery readers and sff readers is exactly the commonality of the puzzle-solving, but it dropped out the bottom of my head.)
There ought to be a way to articulate the difference between litfic puzzle solving and specfic puzzle solving . . . although I realize as I type this that actually, one of the reasons I enjoyed Foe so much is that I could read it as specfic. Which is the same phenomenon pameladean describes in Tam Lin when Janet discovers that Paradise Lost is science fiction. So the question is, why doesn't it work in reverse?
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(I meant to say that I thought one of the reasons there's a pretty heavy overlap between mystery readers and sff readers is exactly the commonality of the puzzle-solving, but it dropped out the bottom of my head.)
There ought to be a way to articulate the difference between litfic puzzle solving and specfic puzzle solving . . . although I realize as I type this that actually, one of the reasons I enjoyed Foe so much is that I could read it as specfic. Which is the same phenomenon