Delaney says...mckitterickMarch 20 2017, 20:34:49 UTC
By the way, I just read a super-relevant interview by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah in the Paris Review:
“What good is science fiction to black people?” Octavia Butler asks. “What good is its tendency to warn or to consider alternative ways of thinking and doing?”
I pose these questions to Delany, and he responds excitedly: “Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be-a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they-and all of us-have to be able to think about a world that works differently.”
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“What good is science fiction to black people?” Octavia Butler asks. “What good is its tendency to warn or to consider alternative ways of thinking and doing?”
I pose these questions to Delany, and he responds excitedly: “Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be-a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they-and all of us-have to be able to think about a world that works differently.”
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