And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart, so that you had serious fiction and genre fiction.
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking vibrancy.
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.