Name: Sharon Kae Reamer
Location (as I am wondering if it is regional)? Expatriate American now living in Cologne, Germany.
How pervasive do you think fantasy/sci-fi is in our society today? It is all-pervasive in the sense that most everyone has seen a SFF movie. But there are many people I meet who have never read a SF or fantasy book. For example, I know many people who’ve seen The Hobbit trilogy and LoTR films but have never read the books. I’ve encountered quite a few people who have told me, flat out, that they would like to read my books but that they don’t like fantasy. I don’t try to argue with them. To each his/her own.
Why do you think this is? It suggests that genre literature, in particular, speculative fiction, is still not seen to be something ‘worthy’ as literature. Maybe in some sense it…
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