RE: Pedantry: RE: 1984

From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Dec 21 2002 - 15:26:55 MST


Technotranscendence sez:

>black gay writer
> > Samuel R. Delany, and
> > should indeed be read by all extropians.
>
> I prefer to think of Delany as writer without the above
> qualifications.:)

In much of his fiction, perhaps. But given his stance as a politically
engaged black, gay writer, especially in autobiographical texts like *1984*
and *The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the
East Village 1957-65*, it would be rather missing the point.

Damien Broderick



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