incredible read! stemming from original conversations around science fictions impact on technology and the world and the backlash to such criticisms. a favorite excerpt of mine;
"I am not opposed to comfort reading—ask me how many comfort re-reads I did over this miserable, trying year—but I am incredibly wary of the insistence on and defense of comfort, of coziness, in our science fiction, of the insistence that they should reassure us. That’s how I read the challenge of Harper’s tweet. Where speculative fiction is at its best is where it defamiliarizes, where it challenges us, where it unsettles. We should beware and abjure, now and always, ideologies constructed around settlement."