Okay, so it now seems that we have to address the issue of preconception in critical appraisal. The impetus is Jonathan Jones, a critic for the UK Guardian who wrote a much-derided essay to the effect that he had never read Terry Pratchett but was certain that he was nothing much. Later, in response to […]
One thing many fans of science fiction do that never fails to bug me is react to critical assaults on their beloved books with hot declarations that critics are never right, that academics pick awful books to make themselves look good, that anybody who professes to admire any book that aspires to more than potboiler […]
