"Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe

Jeff Wilson · 30 Apr 2011, 16:56 · from 2011-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:56:49 -0500
Subject: (urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe
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On 4/29/2011 9:15 PM, Bruce Hayles wrote:
> Did you read Ursula K. LeGuin's
> <http://www.uic.edu/~lauramd/sf/leguin.html> novel, /The Dispossessed
> <http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/dispossessed.html>/? It
> was about the college professor who's married to a college professor,
> only science fiction, and this planet is Russia and this planet is the
> United States. When I read it I was so disappointed. I'd had a dozen
> people tell me how wonderful it was.

I've seen this part of the interview before, somehow...

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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