Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2019 12:57:33 GMT
Guardian
I'm hearing the book isn't that good and had it been written by a first-time writer, it would not have found a publisher.
Machines Like Me is not, however, science fiction, at least according to its author. “There could be an opening of a mental space for novelists to explore this future,” McEwan said in a recent interview, “not in terms of travelling at 10 times the speed of light in anti-gravity boots, but in actually looking at the human dilemmas.” There is, as many readers noticed, a whiff of genre snobbery here, with McEwan drawing an impermeable boundary between literary fiction and science fiction, and placing himself firmly on the respectable side of the line.
I'm hearing the book isn't that good and had it been written by a first-time writer, it would not have found a publisher.
