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In school I got made to study ‘classics’ and not (say) Tolkien, Wells, Shaw, Asimov & Dickens - why?

Friday, October 3rd, 2008
classic science fiction
A asked:


I like science fiction and authors who write in an informal manner, why don’t we study them (to the extent we study others)?
Tiffany, samuel johnson spoke like a commoner and it didn’t destroy him.

Veronica