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<blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 3639780" data-attributes="member: 10479"><p>Well, maybe if by non-licensed fiction you include all speculative fiction, romances, and westerns, I suppose, because that broadens the scope so far beyond just standard fiction that I guess your point rings true to me. I imagine it actually gets about the same respect that pulp got in its heyday. Bottom line, though, is that some very good wheat came from the chaff back then. I don't think that kind of fiction (tie in/licensed) will often, if ever, get slotted along side the great classics of literature but I also do not believe it aspires to those heights. Does anybody who writes such fiction sit down with the setting bible and expect what they churn out to be in the running for a Nobel Prize for Literature? Naw. So, I suppose the cream will rise and the rest will define the bulk of what it actually is perceived to be. No offense, of course, but I get the feeling you agree with this position for the most part and feel your own contributions should be standing out as something more. But you must already know that your name carries that extra impact in your field, right? If you feel it is underappreciated, maybe you should write a bit more sans license so that your output is unfettered by the stigma. I do not doubt you would do well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark CMG, post: 3639780, member: 10479"] Well, maybe if by non-licensed fiction you include all speculative fiction, romances, and westerns, I suppose, because that broadens the scope so far beyond just standard fiction that I guess your point rings true to me. I imagine it actually gets about the same respect that pulp got in its heyday. Bottom line, though, is that some very good wheat came from the chaff back then. I don't think that kind of fiction (tie in/licensed) will often, if ever, get slotted along side the great classics of literature but I also do not believe it aspires to those heights. Does anybody who writes such fiction sit down with the setting bible and expect what they churn out to be in the running for a Nobel Prize for Literature? Naw. So, I suppose the cream will rise and the rest will define the bulk of what it actually is perceived to be. No offense, of course, but I get the feeling you agree with this position for the most part and feel your own contributions should be standing out as something more. But you must already know that your name carries that extra impact in your field, right? If you feel it is underappreciated, maybe you should write a bit more sans license so that your output is unfettered by the stigma. I do not doubt you would do well. [/QUOTE]
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