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[coalescent]

I was going to let it lie, but this (courtesy of a far too early-morning text message from Naomi) is too good to ignore. You want 8:48am:
Presenter: [Margaret Atwood] describes her new book Oryx And Crake as 'speculative fiction' because she says it could happen. Well, is she right? Bryan Appleyard, the author and Sunday Times journalist is writing

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tee-hee...

[scribeoflight]

The DJ Taylor quote is quite simply ludicrous. And hurrah indeed for Mr. Appleyard; Atwood is playing word games, and the rules of her game don't actually stand up that well to close scrutiny...

[tinyjo]

Yeah, I heard that. Taylor was basically claiming that if it was bad, it was SF and if it was good it was something else. He was so blatant that even the interviewer tried to call him on it.