Praise for Robinson -- Sorta

Today's L.A. Times Arts & Entertainment section has a nice profile of SF Kim Stanley Robinson. (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-kim-stanley-robinson21-2010feb21,0,1103862,full.story)

Nice, that is, except for the obligatory slam at the genre:

"Elegant, charming, funny and profound," summarized a reviewer for the Guardian of London, marking Robinson as the rare sci-fi writer whose polished prose and intellectual heft equals his inventive plotting.

Uh-huh.