![]() ![]() ![]() When writers inscribe future worlds that resemble too closely our own, it “isn’t simplicity, it’s laziness,” she contends.Īncestral Night, the sweeping new space saga from Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear, meets Hurley’s challenge and then some. We can tear it all down, and build it up again.” It’s my job to show folks what’s possible. As a writer, it’s my job to construct new normal for people. One of the fundamental roles of a sci-fi or fantasy author is, she says, to challenge our beliefs about what is normal. Or tear down those structures altogether and start over again anew. But it can also challenge our assumptions. Pushing wide the margins to reveal new ways of thinking, doing and acting happens first in fiction, she writes, before permeating through to other spheres of society. ![]() In her superb 2016 essay collection The Geek Feminist Revolution, sci-fi/fantasy author Kameron Hurley lays down a challenge for speculative fiction writers to use their proverbial pens to challenge convention. ![]()
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