truth is stranger than science fiction
Neil Gaiman points to an article on science fiction and the Katrina disaster by Bidisha Banerjee, an editorial assistant at Slate.
As Americans struggled to grasp what was unfolding in New Orleans, the word "unimaginable" recurred frequently-even though the catastrophe had been imagined, and envisioned, many times. Thirty years ago, science fiction writer Samuel Delany wrote, in high detail, about the unfolding of racially-charged violence, rape, and looting in "Bellona," a major American city struck by an unspecified catastrophe and ignored by the National Guard.
From chr0me_kitten, natch.
As Americans struggled to grasp what was unfolding in New Orleans, the word "unimaginable" recurred frequently-even though the catastrophe had been imagined, and envisioned, many times. Thirty years ago, science fiction writer Samuel Delany wrote, in high detail, about the unfolding of racially-charged violence, rape, and looting in "Bellona," a major American city struck by an unspecified catastrophe and ignored by the National Guard.
From chr0me_kitten, natch.