http://kalimac.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] calimac 2009-04-22 05:53 pm (UTC)

I'd guess the phrase in question meant that Silverberg didn't quite make mainstream literary acceptance.

Indeed, that's the main point of the article. But if that's all the phrase meant, he wouldn't be stuck in limbo between them. The overtone of "too good for that yucky sci-fi stuff, too tainted for literary acceptance" is pungent.

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