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"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep."

~The Left Hand of Darkness via @hainishcycle@botsinspace

"As if a change of gender was a change of genre. This is why I don’t trust memoir. As a genre its appeal seems to be that for the reader it renders some other life into an intelligible narrative shape, so that the reader can imagine their own life might have a shape too."

"I wouldn’t be afraid of a swing away from fantasy in the culture at large. I’d rather work in tension with the real anyway. If a deep paradigm shift like that caught on and became the working assumption of the next couple of generations, yes, imaginative space might shrink and it might become important to defend “the practice of the fantastic” (if there ever was such a thing). But until then any crusade based on the assumption that organised fantastika is an abuse victim is absurd at best, at worst the bad faith of an industry astroturf, derived from attitudes that were last applicable (if they ever were applicable) in the 1960s & 70s. It wouldn’t be–it isn’t–much more than commercial protectionism. The door of that wardrobe’s been banging in the wind for fifty or sixty years. Let’s not do squeals of horror and tantrums of entitlement if it swings shut. Whoever wanted a perfectly receptive climate for what they write?" --@mjohnharrison on mastodon

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