{"id":5333,"date":"2007-12-07T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2007-12-07T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T14:32:00","slug":"on-being-labelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/on-being-labelled\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being Labelled"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this excerpt, from a Bryan Appleyard piece<\/a> on science fiction, to be quite telling:<\/p>\n

\n

In the 1970s, Kingsley Amis, Arthur C Clarke and Brian Aldiss were judging a contest for the best science-fiction novel of the year. They were going to give the prize to Grimus<\/i>, Salman Rushdie’s first novel. At the last minute, however, the publishers withdrew the book from the award. They didn’t want Grimus<\/i> on the SF shelves. “Had it won,” Aldiss, the wry, 82-year-old godfather of British SF, observes, “he would have been labelled a science-fiction writer, and nobody would have heard of him again.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, who knows, buoyed by the award, Rushdie might well have gone on to write Midnight’s Cyborgs<\/i>. Wouldn’t that have been such fun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found this excerpt, from a Bryan Appleyard piece<\/a> on science fiction, to be quite telling:<\/p>\n

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In the 1970s, Kingsley Amis, Arthur C Clarke and Brian Aldiss were judging a contest for the best science-fiction novel of the year. They were going to give the prize to Grimus<\/i>, Salman Rushdie’s first novel. At the last minute, however, the publishers withdrew the book from the award. They didn’t want Grimus<\/i> on the SF shelves. “Had it won,” Aldiss, the wry, 82-year-old godfather of British SF, observes, “he would have been labelled a science-fiction writer, and nobody would have heard of him again.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, who knows, buoyed by the award, Rushdie might well have gone on to write Midnight’s Cyborgs<\/i>. 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