14.6: Fantasy and Science Fiction Races
Writing Excuses
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The Diaspora of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Mahatab: I suspect that some of the problems that we have in kind of making our fantasy and science fiction races feel rounded is because we come up with them to fill a role. And then we realize it's too much work to also give them all of this cultural baggage, he says. Mahatab: So if you force yourself to do it, to actually go in and say, well, how is this going to change the way they interact? "I can't remember the names of any of the aliens ... but there's the ones with forearms."
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