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...supply of congenial, self-satisfied enrollees more interested in making friends than meeting recruiters or Pulitzer winners. What, then, will we tell applicants worried that the stodgy Caucasian snow-globe rendered in the cinema classic and Wu-Tang romp “How High” is no fiction...
...crime genre. During the apartheid years, most would have found it unconscionable to write from a pro-police point of view, but the demise of apartheid has changed the equation. One of the new crime authors, Andrew Brown, whose Coldsleep Lullabye won the 2006 Sunday Times Literary Award for Fiction, was repeatedly arrested during the 1980s as a militant anti-apartheid activist. Twenty years on, he is a police reserve officer...
...Perhaps it would be all well and good if science fiction simply gave us dream-like promises of new inventions and a brief introduction to exaggerated scientific theories. But science fiction paints a portrait of human society that is starker and truer than any other genre of fiction. This, of course, is undoubtedly an unpopular idea among more literary types. After all, isn’t the wonderful world of science fiction the territory of pimply, socially awkward teenagers? This would be true if our world was still a world where life was a simple morality play that was played...
...Science fiction is so far the only genre that has truly captured this novel morality play. The great dystopic and apocalyptic tales, such as Orwell’s “1984”, Huxley’s “Brave New World”, Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”, and Vonnegut’s “Cats Cradle”, are all written as science fiction. Our power to utterly destroy ourselves or our world through nuclear war or other man-made mishaps has only been comprehended and communicated through science...
...despite the gloom and doom, science fiction also displays an optimistic view of humanity. Arthur C. Clarke in particular created many utopian societies that ceased to view individuals based on race, religion, or nationality and instead regarded all as members of a shared human species. Clarke believed that peace could emerge if the same energies that result in war and genocide were channeled into space exploration and the eventual colonization of new worlds...