Authors can do that with any genre – sci fi, western, erotica, chick lit, maybe even comedy – but this example is from the distinctly shallow end of the pool. Despite being an adventure sci-fi, it is very closely patterned on the classic intellectual novel of ideas where everything is a metaphor and culture highlights every page. Also it’s about 100-150 shorter than it needs to be. Delany’s Nebula-winning 1967 The Einstein Intersection is a riot of crinkly prose, mythological overlapping, lightweight treatments of fascinating topics and adventures ranging from planetary romance battles against carnivorous flowers to western-style cattle-drives – with dragons. Hands down the most pretentious work of pulp fiction I have ever read, Samuel R.
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