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What Happens If SF Actually Wins The “Literary Respectability” Wars?

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“I believe that the greatest danger to genre fiction nowadays is not the denial of respect from some notional group of literary tastemakers but the very real likelihood that sf/f may become respectable. Those who thirst for the foamy gray poison of respectability should consider the fate of jazz, once a popular medium, now respectable, ossified and ignored.” — James Enge, quoted by Lou Anders, Bowing To The Future

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