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Does the Man Booker Prize discriminate against science fiction authors?

» Award winning author Kim Stanley Robinson says the Booker Prize is discriminating against science fiction authors. He has a list of the authors who should have won, too.

"When it came to literature, [Virginia Woolf] had no prejudices. She read widely and her judgment was superb. And so I am confident that if she were reading today, she would be reading science fiction along with everything else. And she would still be 'greatly interested, and elated too' - because British science fiction is now in a golden age... [B]ut there are no Woolfs on [the Booker Prize] juries, and so they judge in ignorance and give their awards to what usually turn out to be historical novels." - Kim Stanley Robinson


 [ 09.29.09 ]




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