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  • We learn about some of the most important things in our lives vicariously through fiction.
  • I’ve known a lot of people for whom books have been profoundly important
  • Fiction isn’t powerless. And if the author just ignores the politics of their work, that doesn’t mean the book becomes apolitical. It just means they wrote their own defaults.
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  • Think Black people are lazy and violent, but your work isn’t about that? I’ll bet you dollars to donuts it’s in there.
  • Reading is the same way.
  • He’s trying to be a better man and to create (in a small way) a better world by the way he chooses what he reads.
  • And it was a moral statement, even if it was mostly a private one.
  • How we read and how we write will always have moral and political implications. The only choice we’ve got is whether they’re unconscious or considered.
  • beautiful and damning distinction
  • best self
  • authentic self
  • Wanting to live in a better world is great. Working for a better world is great. It only becomes a vice when it keeps us from loving the world we’re in—warts and all. My experience is that life is full of strong women and weak ones. Venal ones. Active ones. Passive ones. Complicated ones. Unhealthy ones. Men are just as varied and complicated and screwed-up. Their lives aren’t our societal best self, but they’re who we are
  • Treating moral issues as if they were craft is asking for a literature of beautiful sermons.
  • reading projects that pull you out into different kinds of authors and stories are wonderful so long as the moral aspects of your reading list don’t become more important than the joy you take in reading
  • I would never argue that the power of story—and it’s a real power—comes without responsibility. But I would say that responsibility is both to the better world to which we aspire and also the broken, compromised one we live in now.
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  • Atheist
  • Bisexual
  • Childhood's End (1953)
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  • The City and the Stars (1956)
  • Across the Sea of Stars (1959, collection)
  • A Fall of Moondust (1961)
  • From the Ocean, From the Stars (1962, omnibus collection)
  • The Nine Billion Names of God (1967, collection)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • Rendezvous with Rama (1972)
  • The Fountains of Paradise (1978)
  • The Sentinel (1982, collection)
  • More Than One Universe (1985, nonfiction)
  • The Songs of Distant Earth: And Other Stories (1986, collection)
  • Beyond the Fall of Night (1990, with Gregory Benford)
  • The Hammer of God (1993)
  • The Light of Other Days (2000, with Stephen Baxter)
  • Arthur C. Clarke and C. S. Lewis: A Correspondence (2001, nonfiction, with C. S. Lewis)
  • The Shining Ones: And Other Stories (2001, collection)
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Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • 20th century American writer
  • blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction
  • critical liberal intellectual
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  • lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union
  • known for his humanist beliefs
  • honorary president of the American Humanist Association
  • eight rules for writing a short story:
  • Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
  • Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
  • Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
  • Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
  • Start as close to the end as possible.
  • No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
  • Write to please just one person.
  • Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense.
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  • outstanding works in the fields of myth, fantasy, and the scholarly study of these areas
  • Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
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  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  • The Crown of Dalemark by Diana Wynne Jones
  • Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
  • A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
  • The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
  • Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
  • The Road to Middle-earth by T. A. Shippey
  • Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis by Peter J. Schakel
  • The Return of the Shadow by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
  • The Annotated Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Douglas A. Anderson
  • Word and Story in C. S. Lewis, edited by Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar
  • A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie by Verlyn Flieger
  • Roverandom by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond
  • J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
  • Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter
  • Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
  • War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft
  • The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
  • The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Diana Glyer; appendix by David Bratman
  • The History of the Hobbit by John D. Rateliff, Part One: Mr. Baggins; Part Two: Return to Bag-end
  • Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi
  • Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery
  • Twentieth-Century Fantasists, edited by Kath Filmer
  • The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, edited by John Clute and John Grant
  • The Myth of the American Superhero by John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett
  • Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper by Charles Butler
  • One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L’Engle and Orson Scott Card by Marek Oziewicz
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