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Triton by Samuel R. Delany7/2/2023 Others take a more pragmatic approach, centered on science fiction as a predictive form, able to explore the implications of new technologies and new social forms, as in the works of Jules Verne, H. 800 b.c.e.) and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso (1516) and including the works of Thomas More, Jonathan Swift, François Rabelais, and Edward Bellamy. Some treat science fiction thematically and historically, as the latest manifestation of a great tradition of heroic and mock-heroic fantasy and utopian literature, running in a line from the epic of Gilgamesh through Homer’s Odyssey (c. The genre does have its apologists, whose defense takes many forms. All too often, science fiction has been regarded by mainstream critics as an adolescent subgenre, a form to be lumped with mysteries, Westerns, and gothic romances, barely literate and hardly deserving of serious attention. Delany (1942-), perhaps the most vocal and certainly among the most intellectual of science-fiction author-critics. This observation certainly holds true for Samuel R. Eliot remarked that a poet’s criticism of other writers often reveals as much or more about that poet’s own work as about that of the writers being discussed.
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