Scalzi on Heinlein & LitFic
2007-12-10 16:21:57.394637+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
The Zombie Robert Heinlein Rises From The Grave Yet Again To Annoy The Politically Correct:
People start writing literary fiction as they tumble through writing programs at Sarah Lawrence or Bennington or Iowa because that's what they're expected to write and they want to impress their professors and fellow students; people start writing science fiction, on the other hand, roughly ten seconds after they set down The Star Beast or Ender's Game or Snow Crash because they get done with the book and think, holy crap, I want to do that. Academia generally wants you to show you can write; science fiction generally wants you to tell a story.