Seth Dickinson
American science-fiction and fantasy writer and game writer; author of The Traitor Baru Cormorant and its sequels and Exordia.
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Their wordsI don’t think this improvement has ‘cost me my edge’. Being poor sucks. Living in misery and filth wastes a lot of time
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Their wordsTabbed browsing and smartphone internet browsers were a mistake!
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Their wordsI have done the most fun writing of my life while in constant day-to-day contact with a small community
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Their wordsI am not a moralist, I do not read a book and say “these characters had a bad relationship, so the book is bad”.
- 10 years earlier
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Their wordsI don’t want to learn about your magic system from an index at the back of the book. I want to discover it with the characters.
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Their wordsIn the past fifty years, fantasy’s greatest sin might be its creation of a bland, invariant, faux-Medieval European backdrop.
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Their wordsIf you stick to your easy automatic tendencies, you’ll produce sexist, racist writing – because our culture still has sexist, racist tendencies, tendencies we internalize
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Our reading
Art should criticize power, and capitalism, as the dominant ideology, can handle harsh satire.
Their wordsAs the dominant ideology in the world right now, I think capitalism can probably handle it. Art should criticize power.