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Hugin

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44. You're in good company with you're belief about the core of Science Fiction...

Sat Jul 18, 2020, 10:56 AM

Jul 2020

Kurt Vonnegut went on about it in quite of few of his commentaries about his works placement in that genera.

He said Sci-fi was a means of scrutinizing and commenting on current events in an oblique manner designed to amuse the intelligentsia while maintaining enough plausible deniability to keep you out of the gulag.

Which, has taken on a new urgency considering the tactics adopted by the maladministration over the past couple of days.

Ironic that fighting fascists and serving as a POW during WWII is what directly led to Vonnegut's writing.

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