[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

This is reflected to a great extent in the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. No genre writers (and certainly no science fiction), no children's writers, just Literature with a capital L.

That's actually not so true anymore. The movement called "magical realism" has become far more popular and critically recognized in the past 15 years (think Umberto Eco, et al.). These books could be considered fantasy, but written in the style of a realist novel. This movement might make speculative fiction (the "academic" term for Scifi) much more critically acceptable in the near future...

[jalisco555]

http://www.greatbooksguide.com/nobel2.html My observation was inspired by this very interesting (to me at least) website:

http://www.greatbooksguide.com/nobel2.html

[jalisco555]

Oops, sorry, my reply got garbled. Anyway the website is http://www.greatbooksguide.com/nobel2.html