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

David Stockhoff · 30 Apr 2011, 22:51 · from 2011-April.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:51:18 -0400
Subject: (urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe
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It's disappointing to many readers of science fiction. I wonder if it's 
disappointing to fans of college professor fiction?

I always thought of it as a response to Heinlein's lunar/stellar 
imperium stories, which certainly needed one.

On 4/30/2011 3:30 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Jeff Wilson<jwilson at io.com>  wrote:
>> I've seen this part of the interview before, somehow...
> It's been quoted at least once before:
> http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0012/0558.shtml
>
> It's a great quip and sums up a lot of people's impression of _The
> Dispossessed_ (at least, it did mine), so I suspect it's been alluded
> to or quoted before in other places.
>


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