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[pantryslut]

"...too many typical science fiction horror stories are not the universal dystopias they pretend to be, but rather the unhappy wails of privilege-coming-to-an-end. Take, for example, the usual Overpopulation Story, in which Americans have to live without private ranch houses, or the typical Pollution Story in which far too often the real gripe is that "we" must subsist on soybeans and vegetable starch (as if the vast majority of the human race since the Bronze Age hadn't been doing just that) or the Violence Story which deplores the fact (as someone recently pointed out) that violence is becoming democratized."

-- Joanna Russ (1974)

Comments

[vylar-kaftan.livejournal.com]

Brilliant.

[imnotandrei.livejournal.com]

Nail. Hammer. Head.

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

It's a significant comfort to me that although Joanna is no longer a significant part of my social life, you are.