Science
fiction includes the hardcore, imaginatively embellished
technological/scientific novel as well as fiction that is even
slightly futuristic (often with an after-the-holocaust milieu -
nuclear, environmental, extraterrestrial, genocidal). An element
much valued by editors who acquire for the literary expression of
this cross-media genre is the ability of the author to introduce
elements that transcend and extend conventional insight.
2000-2001 Writer's Guide to Book Editors,
Publishers & Literary Agents by Jeff Herman (1999)
