Leave it to the English novelist community to shun the one field that is undergoing a golden age. Seriously, what recent books with any staying power have come out of the non-SF/fantasy genres? Meanwhile, authors like Liu Cixin and Peter Watts are churning out some of the most interesting material around.
Oddly, science fiction is one of the ways to escape publishing a book that has "a novel" on the cover that
is on the remainder rack for 99 cents. That is, most
literature faces indifference and sci-fi is an alternative ghetto to the ghetto of "books nobody cares about".