Sharman’s Comments (group member since Jan 05, 2016)

Sharman’s comments from the Why do we read and write science fiction? A conversation with Sharman Apt Russell group.

That essay was interesting, Pauline! I use C.S. Lewis's ideas on writing children's literature when I teach a class in the writing of that literature: he is always thoughtful.

I agree with both Peter and Pauline. Sci-fi does both. And I remember my first semester in college, back in 1972 (!), taking a provocative class about science fiction as literature--with Ursula le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, which was definitely about feminism and gender roles and culture in the 1970s, as well as this interesting future world.

Peter's science fiction, by the way, is The Path, and I think his story is also about both--now and what-if?