I strongly disagree, though perhaps would agree with a certain type of science fiction. Travelogues describing the way the planets were or the way the future was, yes. Hard science fiction, YES.
But Sheckley? "Mindswap", "Dimension of Miracles", not to mention any number of his short stories? Or Dick, or Delaney, or Kornbluth, etc. Those authors, and others like them, have produced classic after classic in the English lit sense of the word(possibly because some of them modelled their output on various classics, c.f. "The Count of Monte Christo" or "The Magic Mountain".)
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But Sheckley? "Mindswap", "Dimension of Miracles", not to mention any number of his short stories? Or Dick, or Delaney, or Kornbluth, etc. Those authors, and others like them, have produced classic after classic in the English lit sense of the word(possibly because some of them modelled their output on various classics, c.f. "The Count of Monte Christo" or "The Magic Mountain".)