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LIBERATION DAY
Freedom and why it matters
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► Author George Saunders
► Publisher Blooomsbury Publishing
→ All science fiction fans are grimly familiar with the idea that readers of literary fiction can be rather sniffy about the field. What’s less often acknowledged, at least from the science fiction side of this equation, is that some fans of the genre are just as guilty of snobbery.
Certainly, there are some good reasons to be sceptical of certain lit-fic writers’ excursions into the future. There have, down the years, been plenty of examples of dilettante science fiction: books that take on a familiar trope, but don’t do enough with it because the writer doesn’t have the knowledge to realise that they’re covering old ground.