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- From: Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Science vs. story in SF (Was: World Cre
- Message-ID: <14720@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 02:58:36 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- Why would anyone go to the trouble of "loathing" a literary form? Would anyone
- hate a haiku, scorn a sonnet, abjure an alliterative poem? If anatomy isn't to
- one's taste, one avoids anatomy. If space opera palls, avoid space opera. It's
- not as if a form, in itself, is automatically going to be politically noxious
- or morally contaminating (though China, with its periodic "spirtual pollution"
- campaigns, might suggest otherwise). If we don't enjoy low-plot, high-debate
- literary forms, we might ask ourselves why not...and what is it about
- high-plot, low-debate genres that interests us?
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