My love-hate relationship with fantasy

tor.com - 8/30/2008

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I hate fantasy. People give me funny looks when I say that. “Jo, you write fantasy,” they remind me gently. “You won the World Fantasy Award. You love fantasy.” It’s true. I love fantasy. But I also hate it. I love it because it’s what Tolkien called “history, true or feigned”. Fantasy is feigned history, imagined history. I love history, so of course I want more of it. And I love it ...

mikebrotherton.com - 9/6/2008

Ten Things I Hate About Science Fiction

— mikebrotherton.com — First off, I love science fiction, but when it’s bad, oh boy, there’s little worse. As a writer and scientist, I’m probably more sensitive to some of the bad things than the average person, but there are plenty of things that ... (more) Ten Things I Hate About Science Fiction

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SF Signal — ... Told Tales: Episode one of "I Killed Awesome Man" by Finn Colgan, performed by a full cast. More free fiction @ Futurismic. Robert J. Sawyer shows of the cover of his imprint's new anthology The Savage Humanists , which features fiction by Gregory Frost, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Jonathan Lethem, James Morrow, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert J. Sawyer, Tim Sullivan, and Connie Willis. Jo Walton's love-hate relationship with fantasy. N.K. Jemisin asks: Why aren't ...

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Mike Brotherton: SF Writer — This first link is potentially very, very interesting, and potentially reveals some very new and unsettling physics. Apparently radioactive decay rates measured in labs on Earth depend on the the distance from the sun. Ref: arxiv.org/abs/0808.3283: Evidence for Correlations Between Nuclear Decay Rates and Earth-Sun Distance. Proposed explanations include the only relatively mundane — an unknown neutrino interaction — to the unsettling — a varying fine structure constant. Anyway, it’s one of those cool, intriguing results that indicates we’re on the verge of new knowledge. It’s still a big universe ...