For those of you not thoroughly fed up of the whole Culture Wars thing by now I present a couple more interesting pieces.

Firstly THE Sodomite, Mr. Hal Duncan, has got himself a gig writing a column for BCS Review. His first effort takes on the history and definition of “science fiction”, passing along the way to look at the origins of the Culture Wars. I suspect it is a little more accurate than Mr. Grossman’s piece, and I can assure you that it is a whole lot more entertaining.

And for those of you who still don’t believe that genre fiction can aspire to the highest standards of literature, here’s John Crowley talking about Little Big and the influences thereon: Joyce, Pynchon, Nabokov, Carroll…