[ SECRET POST #2050 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2050 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 114 secrets from Secret Submission Post #293.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hahahaha yes - Margaret Atwood must have something against sci-fi. I went to see her interviewed at my university a year or two ago and she claimed that Oryx & Crake wasn't sci-fi, it was "speculative fiction". I love her, but c'mon, it's sci-fi.

Sidenote. My tutor was her personal guide/a companion over her two day visit and apparently Atwood is scarily knowledgeable about everything. And my tutor is an incredibly intelligent lady. I was blown away at her interview.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Love to hear that about her. Ursula K. Le Guin had an interview not too long ago where she basically called Margaret Atwood out on not calling her speculative fiction "science fiction." But she also acknowledged that it was because Atwood wants to be considered a serious author (and let's face it, Atwood is, and so is Le Guin and any number of SF/Fantasy authors) but the rigidity of genre classification mean that "speculative" fiction is considered serious and SF/Fantasy is frivolous. Which as most people in this thread have pointed out is fucking ridiculous.

[(Anonymous)]

Mad props to Le Guin for telling like it is. She's an admirable lady. It frustrates me to no end that SF/Fantasy does not get the respect it deserves.

I had a voracious appetite for the stuff since I was old enough to read independently and I honestly think it's been beneficial. I mean, last week, I wrote the word "scry" in my thesis and my intimidatingly clever tutor goes "what does that mean? is that a word?". I momentarily faltered in near-shock! A reader of SF/F would know what "scry" means. He googles it there and then after my explanation and on wiki or something says its 'archaic'. I was like lolololol it may be an old word but in a certain genre, this is common knowledge! Stickin' it to the man!

And if you haven't read it already, go ahead and read Le Guin's 'The Language of the Night'. A collection of her non-fiction and some really interesting bits and pieces of SF/F.

[(Anonymous)]

Damn, I just love Ursula LeGuin.
She just sounds like an awesome person. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Heh, if any of my fellow tutors at my school's writing center didn't know a word like "scry," we'd probably consider firing them on principle.

[(Anonymous)]

I had the same experience using the word "homunculus" in a short story that got peer-critiqued in a creative writing class. None of them were genre readers, all of them were remarkably cool about my stuff being genre fiction, but none of them knew what that word meant, haha. I'm not sure my professor did either.

[(Anonymous)]

Doesn't that word pop up in philosophy and history of biology