Question

[james_davis_nicoll]

Where does the phrase "Heartland SF" come from?

Comments

[david wilford (from livejournal.com)]

I googled this bit just now using 'heartland science fiction' -

http://books.google.com/books?id=a9avHule5XwC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=heartland+science+fiction&source=bl&ots=2KHo0PM8n8&sig=B3NYW3sfemQXGBwXaBjgx6eVNIo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ToV-UYfWHuaE2wX3t4CgDQ&ved=0CG4Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=heartland%20science%20fiction&f=false

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Thanks. So the phrase has been around about a decade and I've just managed to not notice it?

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

Very interesting. Without that context, I might have assumed it was SF that met the imagined criteria of the heartland: SF that was clearly not transgressive in any sense.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

One of the works the author places in the unambiguous, never-questioned core of science fiction is Fahrenheit 451, a book that I'm pretty sure I've heard described as not really science fiction (it may have been by the "it's not crap" criterion).

[joycependle.livejournal.com]

from San Francisco :)

[ilya187.livejournal.com]

Straight from the heart