Literary genre almost fits iconic scene in novel format (7,7)
I believe the answer is:
science fiction
'literary genre' is the definition.
'science fiction' can be an answer for 'genre' (I've seen this before). I am unsure of the 'literary' bit.
'almost fits iconic scene in novel format' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'scene' could be 'sc' (abbreviation) and 'sc' is located in the answer.
'novel' could be 'fiction' (I've seen this before) and 'fiction' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for science fiction that I've seen is " Genre".)