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Face or vase? Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time
tor.com - 9/24/2009
Face or vase? Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time
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The kind of science fiction that’s easiest for a mainstream writer to write is the utopia or dystopia, because it’s a genre that started off as mainstream satire. The most famous twentieth-century examples, Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four were both written by mainstream writers ...

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Bluejo's Journal — Gothics, The Lathe of Heaven, Octavia Butler's Bloodchild, Happy birthday H.G. Wells, Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time, Joan Slonczewski's The Door Into Ocean, Who killed Jon Arryn?, A Feast for Crows, A Storm of Swords (including my theory about what he might be doing with the whole series).

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