Now, I am not saying that science fiction, fantasy, and horror don't make up a category of literature. They do. But I think it's less a genre (a kind of story) than it is a thing for which there isn't a word, but which I'm going to call a modality.
The best laying-out of this argument I've seen is Farah Mendlesohn's introduction to The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction -- well worth seeking out.
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Date: 2007-07-14 08:29 pm (UTC)The best laying-out of this argument I've seen is Farah Mendlesohn's introduction to The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction -- well worth seeking out.