ubernoir wrote:

there is a level of prejudice against Science Fiction amongst certain areas of the literary establishment but there is also a common thread in the SF world of woe is me I am a serious writer -- SF can be literary -- but "they" don't take us seriously --- they treat us as second class -- we're stuck in the ghetto-- get over it -- because slowly but surely the literary establishment is -- so hearing someone as important as Neal Stephenson moaning about it is frankly a pain

This part of your comment reminded me of an LRB article about Philip K. Dick, on the subject of his recent two-volume induction into the Library of America.

RE: The Fork: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture