>Yes, I thought of that too. Utopias are written by authors of
>science-fiction, but do not generally have science-fiction authors in them.
I still think Samuel R Delany was right to suggest that SF is where utopian
+ dystopian possibilities meet, mesh, clash, but neither becomes THE mode.
Which is why SF texts tend to be more interesting as narratives than
utopian/dystopian ones do (although dystopias will have more
action/activity in them than utopias tend to).
Doug
Douglas Barbour
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Cinder of the lexical drift.
Susan Howe
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