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Originally Posted by Hitch
well, you had comic books, and then you had grown-up literature, and genre fiction. Nothing in-between for those unwilling to tackle more complex material.
Hitch
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Yep, and there was a time when 'genre' fiction wasn't considered the most respectable either I'm sure. In at least one book I've read about writing the author talked about the SF ghetto among other things (if I remember correctly). And at one time what genre you were expected to write in seemed to depend upon your gender. After all women couldn't write SF nor could men write Romance, right? And I imagine many writers back then used pen names that hid their genders because of that fact. In fact when Mary Shelly wrote her novel Frankenstein she didn't use her own name at 1st. There are still a few taboo's in writing even today, but I think the written word is more available than ever before due to ebooks.