A Matter of Oaths: An interview with Helen S. Wright

When A Matter of Oaths was first published in 1987, featuring an older woman as a space captain and centring on two men of colour in an intense, romantic relationship, it was a hard sell: 'I have a rejection letter from a well-known editor saying that they wouldn���t buy the book because the gay relationship was so integral to the plot, even though they weren���t a homophobe, nor were many in the SF audience (!). Apparently, I wasn���t "breaking new ground" and risked "alienating some reader...