title: Survey of Science Fiction Literature/With Bibliographic Supplement: Five Hundred 2,000-Word Essay Reviews of World-Famous Science Fiction Novels With 2,500 Bibliographical References
author: Frank Northen Magill
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  # Symbiography
  
  
  ### William Hjortsberg
  
  
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  _For Janie_
  
  
  
  
  
  # CONTENTS
  
  
  [Introduction](5-start.xhtml#Introduction)
  
  
  [Symbiography](6-Symbiography.xhtml#Symbiography)
  
  
  
  
  
  # INTRODUCTION
  
  
  “MY GOD, HE’S COMMITTED science fiction.” So wrote Harry Crews in 1971 in his
  review of _Gray Matters_ for the _New York Times Book Review._ Of course, it
  helped that he went on to say the novel “turns out to be not SciFi, but an
  engrossing fiction informed by an imaginative use of science.” Still, Crews
  had a point to make. Writers of serious literary fiction weren’t supposed to
  dirty their lily-white hands with generic trash. It didn’t matter that such
  fine work as _The Oxbow Incident_ and _The Bronc People_ were westerns, that
  both _1984_ and _Brave New World_ should be classified as science fiction, and
  that Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler both wrote what anyone would define
  as detective _literature._ Genre fiction remained something one despis