Sci-fi has always been a dirty, filthy genre that no right-thinking author would pursue and no properly-educated reader would allow to sully his bookshelves. At least, that’s what my all English teachers told me. So when proper literary authors dip their toes into sci-fi, it’s invariably interesting regardless of the quality of the outcome. And make no mistake, no matter what the pedigree of the author, this sort of literary sci-fi can run the gamut from amazing (Infinite Jest, certainly, or The Handmaid’s Tale) to […]