January 13, 2020

Bruce Sterling on Science Fiction

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science-fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins makes us seem harmless.

—Bruce Sterling, Preface for Burning Chrome

January 13, 2020




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