That's interesting. I don't see the genre primarily or indeed at all really in terms of people. It's a collection of books with similar devices, exploring areas and themes and telling stories using similar methodologies.
That's what I would call the style. Or possibly the mode. Because the thing is, there are two types of writers who write sf--those who consciously come out of the traditions of sf, and those who do not. The former are the genre, the latter are not. That doesn't mean that everything a genre write writes is sf--see again Gibson--as you say, books are treated on a case-by-case basis.
This is distinct from the concept of genre as a marketing category, and should in fact possibly be described using another word altogether ...
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Date: March 24th, 2005 11:34 am (UTC)From:That's what I would call the style. Or possibly the mode. Because the thing is, there are two types of writers who write sf--those who consciously come out of the traditions of sf, and those who do not. The former are the genre, the latter are not. That doesn't mean that everything a genre write writes is sf--see again Gibson--as you say, books are treated on a case-by-case basis.
This is distinct from the concept of genre as a marketing category, and should in fact possibly be described using another word altogether ...