Comments on: Popfic v. Litfic http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/popfic-v-litfic The international organization of multi-published novelists Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jennifer Stevenson http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/popfic-v-litfic/comment-page-1#comment-1256 Jennifer Stevenson Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:17:42 +0000 http://www.ninc.com/blog/?p=853#comment-1256 That's a nice, evenhanded way to describe the differences, I think. You might also add, if feeling charitable, that a lot of "experimental fiction" falls into litfic--if they play games with or challenge the assumptions of popfic, or even challenge the English language as she is wrote most of the time. I'm thinking here of RIDLEY WALKER, which certainly used a science fiction setting and science fictional ideas, but was written in English so modified that it was experienced as experimental. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE was a more readable experiment, and received, again, as litfic, not SF or popfic. That’s a nice, evenhanded way to describe the differences, I think.

You might also add, if feeling charitable, that a lot of “experimental fiction” falls into litfic–if they play games with or challenge the assumptions of popfic, or even challenge the English language as she is wrote most of the time. I’m thinking here of RIDLEY WALKER, which certainly used a science fiction setting and science fictional ideas, but was written in English so modified that it was experienced as experimental. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE was a more readable experiment, and received, again, as litfic, not SF or popfic.

]]> By: Pati Nagle http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/popfic-v-litfic/comment-page-1#comment-1208 Pati Nagle Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:42:01 +0000 http://www.ninc.com/blog/?p=853#comment-1208 I am with you on both the litfic and the music. Great post! I am with you on both the litfic and the music.

Great post!

]]> By: Estella http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/popfic-v-litfic/comment-page-1#comment-1167 Estella Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:21:35 +0000 http://www.ninc.com/blog/?p=853#comment-1167 I love popfic. Don't care f0r litfic and don't care who knows it. I love popfic. Don’t care f0r litfic and don’t care who knows it.

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