"Don’t romanticize science fiction. One of the questions I have been asked so many times I’ve forgotten what my stock answer to it is, “Since science fiction is a marginal form of writing, do you think it makes it easier to deal with marginal people?” To which the answer is, “No.” Why should it be any easier? Dealing with the marginal is always a matter of dealing with the marginal. If anything, science fiction as a marginal genre is more rigid, far more rigid than literature…"
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On how science fiction as a genre is not necessarily more receptive to gay themes in “Don’t Romanticize Science Fiction: An Interview with Samuel Delany” in LitHub (2017 Dec 4)
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