“Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to...”
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“Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to...”
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“Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on.”
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“Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the...”
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“There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same recourse.”
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“I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.”
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“As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of...”
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“With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.”
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