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->''Dear Terrence,\\
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Thank you for sending along a copy of your newly published book. An author's first published manuscript is a momentous occasion. I read it this afternoon.\\
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[[StealthInsult I certainly recognized my son in the subject matter]]. An author's work is the externalization of that which he holds dear (and that which he fears), and in this respect I believe your work was successful.\\
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But the lens through which the personal shone was needlessly clouded by genre cliches and implausible dimestore science-fictional dei ex machina. The great authors speak of their life's milieu in clear and honest tones, the lens crystal that refracts their thoughts without distortion.\\
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I congratulate you on surviving the great ordeal that is publication, and rest assured that readers of your chosen genre will lap up copies hungrily. But I urge you to shed artifice.\\
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You can do better.''
-->-- '''Richard Greenbriar''' in a letter to his son about the latter's book, ''VideoGame/GoneHome''
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->"Vonnegut and Hersey were never within the science fiction ghetto. A few rare writers like Bradbury and LeGuin [=LeGuin=] have transcended the boundaries without compromising the elements of fantasy within their work. But most of us find that the better we do as speculative fiction writers, the less interested publishers are in our non-sf, non-fantasy writing."
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-->--'''Justin Goudey, Newton, NJ''', The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2016
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-->--'''Justin Goudey, Newton, NJ''', The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Literature/BulwerLyttonFictionContest 2016
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-"We're not science fiction, we're in fact science fact."
-->--'''Creator/AlbertRBroccoli''', describing ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''
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Restoring; Watts is critiquing the genre descriptors Atwood is using and accusing her of using them in order to ensure her work is not labelled as science fiction when, in Watts' view, it can be. Disagree all you want, but his quote is relevant to the page and so belongs here.
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->Here is a woman so terrified of sf-cooties that she'll [[IRejectYourReality happily redefine the entire genre]] for no other reason than to exclude herself from it.
-->--'''Peter Watts''', on Creator/MargaretAtwood, "[[http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Atwood.pdf Margaret Atwood and the Hierarchy of Contempt]]"
-->--'''Peter Watts''', on Creator/MargaretAtwood, "[[http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Atwood.pdf Margaret Atwood and the Hierarchy of Contempt]]"
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-->--'''Creator/OrsonScottCard'''
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-->--'''{{Website/SFDebris}}''', introduction to ''{{Series/RedDwarf}}''
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-->--'''{{Website/SFDebris}}''', introduction to ''{{Series/RedDwarf}}''
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