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19906053 No.19906053 [Reply] [Original]

>Magic realism is fantasy written by people who speak Spanish.
>Incidentally, I'd argue that SF represents literature's real mainstream. What we now normally consider the mainstream—so called realistic fiction—is a small literary genre, fairly recent in origin, which is likely to be relatively short lived. When I look back at the foundations of literature, I see literary figures who, if they were alive today, would probably be members of the Science Fiction Writers of America. Homer? He would certain belong to the SFWA. So would Dante, Milton, and Shakespeare. That tradition is literature's mainstream, and it has been what has grown out of that tradition which has been labeled SF or whatever label you want to use.
Oh wait, nope, those are both Gene Wolfe quotes.
https://books.google.com/books?id=MkPfjCVo3g4C&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/wolfe46interview.htm

>> No.19906084

>>19906053
why are genre shitters always uppity little seethers?

>> No.19906136

>>19906053
>>19906084
Man, this is a bit surprising coming from the so-called "Melville" of science fiction. I liked the Wizard Knight enough but this makes me lose respect. Even Vonnegut said that Science Fiction writers are just a club for people who can't write very well anyway.

>> No.19907541

>>19906053
Absolutely right. “Seethers”? You and your meme words… touch grass