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Letter: Science friction

Published 12 September 2007

From Harry Harrison

You write “Rebecca Goldstein has received numerous awards for fiction and scholarship” (25 August, p 46) Here is one more: the Blind Spot Award. In her entire article on science in fiction she never once mentions science fiction.

Perhaps she feels that “literary fiction” is what she writes. I guess we science fiction writers just aren’t literary.

Rottingdean, East Sussex, UK

Issue no. 2621 published 15 September 2007

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