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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this episode of Critical Friends , the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Aisha and Dan discuss genre boundaries in texts and criticism: how they're used, where they fall ... and what, if anything, they're good for. Is science fiction is more of a technique than a genre? Might it help to think about all texts as sitting across modes and categories? In the course of the conversation, Dan and Aisha return on several occasions to a recent episode of the New Yorker podcast Critics At Large . A transcript of this episode can be found at the Strange Horizons website .…
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1 Critical Friends Episode 10: The Complicity of Science Fiction 40:32
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this episode of Critical Friends , the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Aisha and Dan discuss a recent essay by Jake Casella Brookins that appeared in the Ancillary Review of Books . "The vaunted prophylactic prophecy of science fiction—the ability to prevent an undesirable future by loudly predicting it—has consistently proven false," argues Brookins, and so Aisha and Dan ask themselves: what good, and bad, might SF do? And when we find a piece of good criticism such as this essay, how can it help us think better about its questions?…
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