{"id":18414,"date":"2022-03-29T19:59:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=18414"},"modified":"2022-03-30T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T00:00:42","slug":"why-is-speculative-fiction-looked-down-upon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/03\/29\/why-is-speculative-fiction-looked-down-upon\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is speculative fiction looked down upon?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_4483.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"316\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_4483.jpg\" alt=\"Why is speculative fiction looked down upon?\" class=\"wp-image-18409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_4483.jpg 316w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_4483-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_4483-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Why is speculative fiction looked down upon?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s mostly snobbery. People from particular social and educational backgrounds dominate the publishing industry, including the prestigious book awards, and for a long time they have favored literary realism as a style&#8211;that&#8217;s a genre also, BTW. SF and mystery and romance were all originally written to be cheap entertainment for mass audiences. Parts of the Establishment still look down their noses at them. While other parts of the Establishment make billions of dollars from it. Read what you like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s mostly snobbery. People from particular social and educational backgrounds dominate the publishing industry, including the prestigious book awards, and for a long time they have favored literary realism as a style&#8211;that&#8217;s a genre also, BTW. SF and mystery and romance were all originally written to be cheap entertainment for mass audiences. Parts of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/03\/29\/why-is-speculative-fiction-looked-down-upon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is speculative fiction looked down upon?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18424,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18414\/revisions\/18424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}