DON’T ROMANTICIZE SCIENCE FICTION: AN INTERVIEW WITH SAMUEL DELANY

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Don’t romanticize science fiction. One of the questions I have been asked so many times I’ve forgotten what my stock answer to it is, “Since science fiction is a marginal form of writing, do you think it makes it easier to deal with marginal people?” Which-no! Why should ( Read more... )

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via The Mary Sue.

We in the book community are in the middle of a sustained conversation about diversity. We talk about our need for diverse books with diverse characters written by diverse writers. I wholeheartedly agree ( Read more... )

He killed himself this weekend. I pulled out my copy of Infinite Jest. I never finished it. I liked his essays when I came across them. I hope he's at peace now.

It's been a pretty shitty year for writers, hasn't it?

See his obit at Locus.

He is probably most famous for, depending on your age, Camp Concentration or The Brave Little Toaster.

My favorite of his works was with his partner Charles Naylor: Neighboring Lives which was a fictionalized set of vignettes of the major Victorian writers and artists. Carlyle was there, and Rossetti, and Hunt and Carrol, ( Read more... )

...because this is the best interview ever. Seriously.

I'd give anything to see the transcription of the whole damn thing!

I like getting the mail when I come home in the evening. I particularly like it when I get reading material and not spam. Today I got the new issues of The American Archivist and Realms of Fantasy, and because I am me I tossed TAA on the couch and opened up RoF.

RoF has a story by Way Jeng called "Somebody Desperately Needed to Be Neil Gaiman."

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She died yesterday at 88. She was one of my favorite writers when I was young.

(I thought she died a few years ago. Now I feel extra sad.)