People trying to break into familiarity with some type of art, I think, are often motivated by the feeling that they ought to know about this stuff in order to be educated or well-rounded, which is an attitude maybe not conducive to stumbling on wonders.
With science fiction, it's a little different. Nobody feels they have to know about SF as part of a cultural education, since, while it doesn't have the social stigma it had fifty years ago, it's certainly not considered highbrow Art by people outside the fan community. But I do get the impression that many technically astute people, or people who like a science-fiction TV show or movie or two, do think something along the lines of "this seems like a genre that is supposed to appeal to people like me; maybe I should give it a try". And they maybe pick out a few books at random, or things their friends recommended, and are often dismayed to discover that they're uninvolving or just plain bad.
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Date: 2006-01-07 09:00 am (UTC)With science fiction, it's a little different. Nobody feels they have to know about SF as part of a cultural education, since, while it doesn't have the social stigma it had fifty years ago, it's certainly not considered highbrow Art by people outside the fan community. But I do get the impression that many technically astute people, or people who like a science-fiction TV show or movie or two, do think something along the lines of "this seems like a genre that is supposed to appeal to people like me; maybe I should give it a try". And they maybe pick out a few books at random, or things their friends recommended, and are often dismayed to discover that they're uninvolving or just plain bad.