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Covers of the Ballantine Books paperback editions from the 1970s. By RL Thornton. Returning to Literary Fantasy. Throughout the history of speculative fiction (i.e. SF/F), the genre has always had a problematic relationship with the literary mainstream. Aspersions were initially cast by pulp/"scientifiction" types on literary values and even as those values crept into the