Too many links and you have a chain

[threemonkeys]

While I'm in the mood for linking to rants, there is a really interesting one over on Paul McAuley's blog about definitions in SF and the undesirability of creating limiting definitions. It is worth following the links and also the links from this earlier related post.

Comments

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

I remember Neil Gaiman talking about SF being in the gutter and reveling in it. It isn't literature - it is its own thing.

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

...or some other tick mark that meets the approval of the Guardians of the True Quill

It's sort of funny how both Ms Rusch and Mr McAuley seem to dislike the Guardians. And from your comments I'd surmise that you do, too. So where, then, is the disagreement?

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Well I suspect that McAuley thinks Rusch is a guardian.

To be honest I don't really think much about genre guardians at all - Neil Gaiman may well though. It is probably a writer thing. Concern over who will publish their work and how it is received critically. I suspect that editors and critics (or even revewers) are where they are concerned.