Never Let Me Go / Kazuo Ishiguro  This review appeared on my
previous blog, Rat's Reading.  Cover of Never Let Me Go  This is
one of the best science fiction books I’ve read in years. It’s
so good you won’t think of it as science fiction. I’m a little
resentful of that phrase. It irritates me that science fiction
as a genre is popularly thought to only include the schlock, and
the good stuff by definition just can’t be science fiction. A
co-worker said this to me the other day when I pointed out The
Sparrow as it came across the receiving station and I
recommended it to her. I knew she didn’t like science fiction
generally, and thought she might read it and find some science
fiction she liked. She told me she had already read it, but that
she didn’t think it was science fiction.  Then again, I’m a
believe in Sturgeon’s Revelation: ninety percent of everything
is crud. Including science fiction. And unfortunately, what
science fiction fans like generally isn’t the good science
fiction. What usually gets the s.