With sinister echoes of 1984 and Brave New World, this original novel features a near-future city where medical science invents a single-dose pill for eradicating many common genetic defects . . .
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From the acclaimed author of Mr. Shivers and The Company Man comes a new tale of gothic intrigue set during the Vaudeville era.
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- - August 25th, 2010
Robert Jackson Bennett has some interesting thoughts on the role of genre in fiction over at his blog: here. What do you think? Is literary fiction innovative? Is genre limiting?
Is Mr. Shivers the best debut you’ll read this year? I can only answer the last one.
(… the answer is yes, by the way.)
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Yahzi
August 25, 2010
at 9:00 pm
No, genre is not limiting: try reading Stanislaw Lem to see how many different forms “science-fiction” can take.
Although, if you consider be confined to a plot with characters that act and change, then yes, genre is restricting, and literary fiction is “innovative.”
Personally, I think art is expression inside of restriction; if there were no limitations, it would just be pure self-expression, not art.