Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
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The Importance of Heroism in Genre Fiction
In one very narrow sense of morality, we are becoming concerned about a wider circle of creatures than we were before. Does that make us more moral? I think that's an incredibly complex question that I'm not equipped to answer. You've argued that there are quite few, ambitiously good characters in fiction. Is that also true for genre fiction? No, I'm so glad you asked that. I think that science fiction is full of heroic characters, so are romances.
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