David Mitchell, Author Of Cloud Atlas, Is Not Into ‘Genre Snobbery
David Mitchell is an author with unusually broad tastes and a particularly wide-ranging imagination. His most famous novel, Cloud Atlas, which was adapted into a feature film by the Wachowskis, features linked stories that range from the present to the past to the far future. His latest books, The Bone Clocks and Slade House, deal with feuding immortals and a haunted house. Book snobs are often hostile to such fantasy and science fiction elements, an attitude that Mitchell has no patience for.
“It’s convenient to have a science fiction and fantasy section, it’s convenient to have a mainstream literary fiction section, but these should only be guides, they shouldn’t be demarcated territories where one type of reader belongs and another type of reader does not belong,” Mitchell says in Episode 175 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.
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