Short stories and a lecture on the unspeakable horror of writer's block and some nifty fusillades of forthright personal abuse and a lot of other stuff There's some great campy guff about the agonizing pain it takes to write It's hard to stop quoting this interview. But that's okay, because now there are other people doing our job." I have no hope at all that genre science fiction can ever again have any literary significance. I think of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and of Don DeLillo's White Noise, and of Batchelor's The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica, and of Gaddis' JR and Carpenter's Gothic, and of Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K. When I think of the best `speculative fiction' of the past few years, I sure don't think of any Hugo or "And," says Scholz, "They make us look sick. Learned to adapt SF's best techniques to their own ends. In the 60s and 70s, Scholz opines, SF had a chance to become a worthy literature now that chance has passed. In a recent remarkable interview in New Pathways #11, Carter Scholz alludes with pained resignation to the ongoing brain-death of scienceįiction. Slipstreaming is likely not going to be your everyday computing task, but it can come in handy sometimes.(originally published in SF Eye #5, July 1989 reprinted through the Electronic Frontier Foundation) Will make it easier to slipstream apps into your installation CD.
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