When asked about the “literary” world ignoring science fiction and cli-fi as not being REAL literature, and given that, how to reach beyond sci-fi readers, Dan Bloom replied to sf literary critic Gautham Shenoy in India:
''As Amitav Ghosh brilliantly noted in his essay about literary matters in The Great Derangement in 2016, the gatekeepers of the literary world in London, New York and Mumbai have persisted over the years in trying to push sci-fi and cli-fi genre novels into the gutters and outhouses of book circles. But what they do when they do that is wrong and counterproductive. The borders between all genres now are less rigid than in the past and this allows readers outside normal sci-fi boundaries to ignore the literary gatekeepers and plunge in to climate related novels in whatever genre they choose without fear of the establishment.''
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