Kazuo Ishiguro has written 'literary' fantasy (The Buried Giant) and sci-fi (Never Let Me Go).
From the other angle, Gene Wolfe is generally cited as a genre author good enough to be considered literary.
Lucas Rogers
Gene Wolfe (Book of the New Sun) and Mervyn Peake (Gormenghast trilogy) for straight literary fantasy. I'd like to know what could be literary science fiction.
Connor Nguyen
Depends on what you consider modern, and what you're willing to forgive.
Most genre authors have some sort of weakness.
I'd recommend Hyperion and Malazan: Book of the Fallen.
They both have fairly similar problems. Cliche imagery / aesthetic choices, and the occasional tendency to get bogged down in archaeological minutiae.
If you can stomach that, they're some of the best in their respective genres.
Jeremiah Taylor
Pynchon and Dick
Carter Morgan
david mitchell is one of the best examples of this.
Caleb Sullivan
you mean that reddit fuck-face who thinks he's all 'cunning wit' and 'the next blackadder'. fuck off.
he's an asshole, no denying that. that doesn't change that OP would love cloud atlas.
Jason Allen
I'll be releasing my fantasy epic soon, and it will blow all literary fiction from the century out of the water.
Juan Martin
Yes it will sweetie.
Charles Brown
er you know there's more than one person called david mitchell, right?
Hudson Powell
Stanisław Lem was one of the most literary SF authors. Much of Borges' fiction could be classified as genre, either fantasy, horror, mystery, or otherwise.
Jonathan Torres
Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light and Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination are both excellent.
William Rivera
P e t e r S. B e a g l e e t e r
S.
B e a g l e
Seriously. Specifically A Fine and Private Place and The Last Unicorn.
Andrew Ward
Strugatsky brothers.
Jackson Williams
Different David Mitchell, senpai.
Connor Thomas
We all thought this. Then we all gave up.
John Howard
fun fact : "literary" and "genre" is a false dichotomy, and the distinction doesn't actually exist.
Nathan Russell
checked.
Also, you are wrong. Genre is defined by its tropes rather than its themes, and almost always it is written/read solely for entertainment.
Elijah Hill
Its more of a marketing meme than anything
in practice its damn near an illusion
Aaron Peterson
>read solely for entertainment That's the correct reason to read though.
Christian Moore
I don't feel like wasting my time with you, fuckhead.
Easton Taylor
>I love genre fiction. i love stories with swords and magic, advanced alien societies Not literature, but I don't think I ever saw a better blend between high fantasy and sci-fi than pic related. But then again, I was I kid when I read it
Jackson Flores
Good.
Gabriel Ortiz
there are a bunch of literary tropes too, literary works that rely them can be just as bad as genre fiction. the best genre fiction transcends its tropes.
James King
The only real bad literary trope I can think of, or at least the worst one, is people drinking lemonade on their porch.
Ryan White
"the main character is a writer" is the most obvious one. it's not always bad but it can be a really lazy way of trying to be literary.
Aiden Smith
>from the century You mean the past 16 years. I'd tell you not to be a faggot but it's too late for that it seems.
Ryan Sanders
>imlying po-moshit doesnt have tropes >implying poetry doesnt have tropes >implying epics dont have tropes >impying """"literary""""" novels arent also made for entertainment if you're gonna define something as genre based on tropes and entertainment value then the whole fucking western cannon is a saturday morning cartoon.
Isaac Hernandez
A century is 100 years. You're just categorizing.
Luke Williams
I said that genre is DEFINED by its tropes. Goddamn, I didn't say other fiction didn't have tropes.
These guys pretty much confirm that "le literary vs genre" meme is just marketing bullshit and nothing more.
Aaron Fisher
Have you people even read the master and slave dialectic? I certainly haven't
Austin Morris
>go to the bookstore >start mixing all the sci-fi/fantasy/horror/romance/mystery books with all the general literature books >store employees get mad and tell me to leave >"lol it's all the same you plebs!"
Luke Murphy
That picture captures the juvenile arrogance of science fiction so well.
Robert Rodriguez
Or ignorance*
Colton Kelly
nigga fuck off Peep Show is the shit
Jaxon Baker
Read ONLY Hyperion, don't read any of the other fuckin books in that series.
Nathan Fisher
Stephen King is literary you knob.
Dominic Rogers
*Isn't
Jaxon Perry
Yeah, that's a modern interpretation. In the seventies there was no distinction between high level science fiction and literature, in the forties no distinction between high level fantasy and literature, etc...
William Thompson
but there's nothing stopping a genre work as defined by its tropes from being literature, so there's no dichotomy and you're still wrong.
Oliver Young
Fun fact: you're a pleb
Julian Bailey
How is that at all related
Lucas Kelly
>genre fiction
Kayden Anderson
I'm actually writing a book that blends genre and literature. I won't tell you how, but I have 50,000 words of a conglomeration of pure linguistic elegance and genre shit. I'll eventually post here once it's amazon self published.
Might be the novel to define a generation, might be total horeshit.
Lincoln Sanders
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Ryder Wright
Snowcrash and Diamond Age are verging on it, because they deal with some heavy themes but end up focusing more on genre fiction. Anathem goes heavy on the philosophy and uses the fiction part to explore those ideas, usually from two angles.
Aiden Richardson
im really exited to read Anathem. mostly because of it's girth and pulsating thickness. my copy has a nice musty sweaty smell and the cloth binding gets moist in hot days.