Insincerity, conventionality, triteness, artificialty, false emotion, and puerile

extravagance reign triumphant throughout this overcrowded genre, so that

none but its rarest products (including the novels of H. G. Wells) can possibly
claim a truly adult status.
The present commentator does not believe that the idea of space-travel and
other worlds is inherently unsuited to literary use.
The fallacy is the notion that any account of impossible, improbable, or
inconceivable phenomena can be successfully presented as a commonplace
narrative of objective acts and conventional emotions in the ordinary tone and
manner of popular romance. Over and above everything else should tower the
stark, outrageous monstruousness of the one chosen departure from Nature.
The characters should react to it as real people would react to such a thing if it
were suddenly to confront them in daily life; displaying the almost soulshattering amazement which anyone would naturally display instead of the
mild, tame, quickly-passed-over emotions prescribed by cheap popular
convention. Even when the wonder is one to which the characters are assumed
to be used, the sense of awe, marvel, and strangeness which the reader would
feel in the presence of such a thing must somehow be suggested by the autor.