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The Last Great Pool Party: Postcolonialism and Science Fiction: Excerpt from the Introduction
Over at io0 they’ve posted an excerpt from the introduction to Dr Langer’s book Postcolonialism and Science Fiction. On 23 May 2005, I met writer Nalo Hopkinson in a Swiss Chalet restaurant at Bathurst and Bloor in Toronto, Canada, the city where I was born and… Someone criticized Dr. Langer’s excerpt for not having mentioned Bacigalupi in it. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! And anyway, all that HOW DARE SHE NOT MENTION IN THIS ONE EXCERPT ALL THESE VERY IMPORTANT (MOSTLY WHITE) AUTHORS!?!?!?!?! offs *sigh* Too academicky for me. I mean, it’s great that she’s doing academic work on it, but blagh. I am curious as to how these commenters know which authors she has and hasn’t covered, given that they just posted a small excerpt. Personally inclined to give her a pass on Bacigalupi because WG is only a couple years old and one might want to restrict oneself to works proven to have staying power.
