
030: A 2004 Conversation With China Mieville
Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column
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The Problem With Race in Fantasy and Science Fiction
With a lot of fantasy, species is more or less a code for race in our world. I had all sorts of issues with that. to me were fairly thinly veiled Asians in a way that I thought was really problematic. What I wanted to do in Baslag was to say, racism is real, but it's real just like it is in the real world.
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