ITT: Genre fiction that is as good as normal literature
I'll start: The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
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Also, anything by Gene Wolfe
No one?
Anything by Alfred Bester
Also Solaris
L. Sprague De Camp
>>7739533
So what's wrong with genre fiction?
War of the Worlds by HG Wells
>>7739572
Hypersphere.
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The distinction between genre fiction and literary fiction is arbitrary at best. Consider the amount of garbage books which can't be ascribed to any particular genre, and the amount of great books which happen to have spaceships or mythological beings
>>7739414
Ulan dhor is the greatest short story ever written
>>7739589
Those two books didn't age particularly well, in my opinion, but still have literary merit for advancing sci-fi horror to be more accessible and concisely written.
Hainish Cycle and Earthsea series by Le Guin
Bas-Lag series and The City & the City by Mieville
The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Wolfe
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by PKD
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by le Carre
Pattern Recognition by Gibson
Dune by Herbert
>>7739845
I feel the same about Algernon Blackwood and horror. The Wendigo is actually scary, but the rest of his stuff...meh.
I Am Legend
>>7740278
Seconded. They are unfunny, and reek of New York/California "look-at-us-try-hard" along the lines of Raymond Pettibon or that other faggot who does the colored-pencil stuff with the ugly men and long paragraphs. You all instantly know who I'm talking about even if you don't.
Edit, here's an example of him memeing. Actually this one is rather funny though desu. The rest are intolerably "meta" and New York though, just like OP's garbage.
Dune, its arguably more profound than many "literary" works
the "literary/genre" distinction is retarded as fuck once you can recognize the theme behind the face value symbols.
