John Brunner's comments on SF and its relationship with "real" literature are interesting, perceptive, and thought-provoking. Brunner's commentary on the "science fiction ghetto" brings to mind Philip K. Dick, LeGuin, and Disch who also tackled the stigma of being science fiction writers who valiantly improved the literary and artistic style of SF. As Brunner says, we should not be surprised then by Vonnegut's science fiction elements in Slaughterhouse Five or the science fiction-y gadgets of the Bond series. The distinctions between the "ghetto" and other forms or styles of literature have perhaps even blurred more with the passage of time.
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