From: kevin_c75@yahoo.com   
      
   On Monday, September 1, 2014 11:39:37 AM UTC-4, Nicky wrote:   
   > I don't about the merit of it because I haven't read any but from my point   
   of view the writer's world view tends to imbue their fiction because if can't   
   do otherwise and to categorise fiction by the writer's world view seemed to me   
   unusual. I don't    
   think it is a phenomenon that has made it over here in any big way though,   
   come to think of i,t I do know one writer who writes it.   
      
   What John describes is appropriately called "preachiness" and can be found in   
   other genres. Preachiness is marked by cardboard villains and protagonists who   
   can do no wrong. Somewhere around here is an example from _Analog_ of about a   
   quarter century ago,   
    where cardboard characters wanted to nix a comet watch program while, of   
   course, the right-thinking protagonist showed them all up in taking a stand   
   for the program as all right-thinking readers applaud.   
      
   Note that fiction is already categorized, so this is nothing new. It's just   
   another division.   
      
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