Ursula K. Le Guin : Words Are My Matter
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Resistance to Science Fiction and Fantasy
i wonder if maybe one of the biases against science fiction and fantasy is that there's the elevation of the non human. And then the decentralization of humanity with regard to intelligence, because intelligence isn't just shared by our species in so many of these stories. Oh, i think you're, you're right right on it. There th, there's real resistance to this. And it's it that's kind of part of a lot of the resistance to science. Because science simply moves us away from the center of things. It's, you ou get sort of dethroned, you know. A lot of people can't bear it. They hate ititit makes them
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