Fantasies of Political Agency

Lois Bujold’s guest of honor speech at Denvention 3 was about genre boundaries, expectations, and her experiments with breaking them:

In fact, if romances are fantasies of love, and mysteries are fantasies of justice, I would now describe much SF as fantasies of political agency.

[via Cynthia Gonsalves]

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