Apex Book Company

There’s a big difference in the way “literary” writers and genre writers approach science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Genre writers revel in their worlds of wild imagination, so much that it plays an integral part in the plot and the action. To writers like Jose Saramago, Cormac McCarthy, and Kevin Brockmeier, genre conventions are mere backdrops to a greater purpose. As a reader, sometimes this works for me. I enjoyed McCarthy’s The Road. Not so much Brockmeier’s The Brief History of the Dead.