Why hasn't there been a science-fiction Booker winner?
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
... is one of the five greatest sci-fi writers alive today (together with – probably – Brian Aldiss, Samuel Delany, Ursula Le Guin and Gene Wolfe) meant that my reaction was compounded of one part vainglorious ego-puff, one part genuine pride and three parts fanboy enthusiasm. Actually, Robinson's argument is not about my novel: it is, rather, an eloquent jab at the literary...