Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Multiculturalism in SF

This essay talks about reasons for writing multicultural science fiction.  It's not bad.  But really?  If you need an article like this in the first place, it's probably not going to help much.  The really good futurists  have no trouble looking at a diverse world and envisioning a diverse future, or peeling off slivers that are something other than the currently fashionable powerbase.  Consider Firefly, for instance.  That's one of the most chromatically plausible futures I've seen, despite the fact that my crisis litany ends with "... and thank the gods we don't live in a universe scripted by Joss Whedon."
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  • 18 comments
fayanora

fayanora

April 14 2012, 08:55:09 UTC 9 years ago

It could be worse. We could be living in a George R. R. Martin novel.
ysabetwordsmith

0_o

ysabetwordsmith

April 14 2012, 14:54:35 UTC 9 years ago

At first I just looked at that and laughed.

Then I thought ... way the hell too many people, most of them white people, most of them douchebags, who are obsessed with money and politics, and who are paranoid about being invaded.

Disturbingly the main difference is that global warming summer is coming, rather than winter.

I really did not need that parallel wriggling around through my brain.
fayanora

Re: 0_o

fayanora

April 17 2012, 02:23:47 UTC 9 years ago

Oh gods, you're right! o_O