

It’s because the snobbery of English teachers puts Socialist Realusm literary fiction above everything else.
Ursula Le Guin’s “On Serious Literature” springs to mind:
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/on-serious-literature
Why this child abuse must be perpetrated to appease a coterie of critics eludes me.
Zero interest given that Cixin Liu is an apologist for the CCP’s genocide in Xinjiang.