(urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Sat Apr 30 19:52:57 PDT 2011


On 4/30/2011 7:15 PM, James Wynn wrote:
> I think Wolfe's problem with it was that there was no reason not to have
> written the story in the Realistic genre. It was a Naturalism story with
> SF scenery. Pointless. It didn't deal at all with all the "other stuff"
> that Wolfe thinks Realistic fiction cannot address.
>
> Of course the same could be said of Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" --
> just War fiction with lasers.

Can you tell me what page the lasers appear on?

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