Thought for the Day

[bcholmes]

On alternatives to genre categories:

To give each reader an annotated author-list of whatever their fiction addiction is, so they can go find the books on the shelves, is a perfectly fair solution, offered by many libraries. But addicts don't like it. They want books to be easy the way fast food is easy. They want to go to the shelf and stick out their hand and get a fix.

-- Ursula K. LeGuin, "Genre: A Word Only a Frenchman Could Love", from The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1