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Making Over the Mall With Parks and Sermons - NYTimes.com
At some point I expect these derelict, post-retail shopping malls to become Ballardian people hives
ideas  stories  nonfiction  future  sciencefiction  spaces 
february 2012 by madebypick
Lethem On The “Squandered Promise” Of Science Fiction - The Rumpus.net
Among the factors arrayed against acceptance of SF as serious writing, none is more plain to outsiders than this: the books are so fucking ugly. Worse, they’re all ugly in the same way, so you can’t distinguish those meant for grown-ups from those meant for 12-year-olds. Sadly enough, that confusion is intentional, and the explanation brings us back again to the mid ’70s.
sciencefiction  literature  commentary  books  stories  genre 
july 2011 by madebypick
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