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Yes, Delany's got it dead on...and proved it time and time again...especially in his novel Triton. -Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:53 AM Subject: Re: On the affinity between poetry and sci-fi > >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 > Department of English > University of Alberta > Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 > (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521 > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm > > Cinder of the lexical drift. > > Susan Howe >