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The Retired English Teacher Reflects: Literary Science Fiction - Page 3

Our retired English Teacher spent a large part of his career arguing the literary merits of category AKA genre fiction. Here is a non-comprehensive list of 90 examples which clearly elevate Science Fiction to high literary art; so much so that many are shelved in the "Fiction and Literature " sections of bookstores rather than in "Science Fiction and Fantasy". Apparently we still live in a literary world where prevailing wisdom says, "It's too good; it CAN'T be Science Fiction."
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This Immortal (Roger Zelazny)
This Immortal
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Roger Zelazny
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
The Time Machine
82
H.G. Wells
A Time of Changes
A Time of Changes
83
To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis)
To Say Nothing of the Dog
84
Connie Willis
Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
Ubik
85
Philip K. Dick
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
We
86
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
87
The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi)
The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi
The Word for World Is Forest (Ursula K Leguin)
The Word for World Is Forest
89
Ursula K Leguin
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Michael Chabon)
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
90
Michael Chabon
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