[science fiction and fantasy] is a ghetto inside the glorious city of “Literary Fiction”, but the reverse. “Literary” novels sell abominably badly, by and large; popular culture in the main belongs to SF and Fantasy, eighteen of the top twenty highest grossing movies of all time are SFF, everybody recognises SFF icons and memes’". Critics and readers of mainstream fiction have been accused of "snobbery" when it comes to their dislike of genre fiction. See also Aesthetic judgment Literary criticism Literary genre Literary theory A Reader's Manifesto References Bibliography Academic culture The arts Culture Literature Style (fiction)