{"id":11990,"date":"2015-07-30T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T17:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-the-contemporary-science-fiction-scene\/"},"modified":"2015-07-30T17:14:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T17:14:02","slug":"in-the-contemporary-science-fiction-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-the-contemporary-science-fiction-scene\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the contemporary science-fiction scene, [acclaimed author Samuel R.] Delany\u2019s race and sexuality do not set him apart as starkly as they once did. I suggested to him that it was particularly disappointing to see the kind of division represented by the Sad Puppies movement within a culture where marginalized people have often found acceptance. Delany countered that the current Hugo debacle has nothing to do with science fiction at all. \u201cIt\u2019s socio-economic,\u201d he said. In 1967, as the only black writer among the Nebula nominees, he didn\u2019t represent the same kind of threat. But Delany believes that, as women and people of color start to have \u201ceconomic heft,\u201d there is a fear that what is \u201cnormal\u201d will cease to enjoy the same position of power. \u201cThere are a lot of black women writers, and some of them are gay, and they are writing about their own historical moment, and the result is that white male writers find themselves wondering if this is a reverse kind of racism. But when it gets to fifty per cent,\u201d he said, then \u201cwe can talk about that.\u201d It has nothing to do with science fiction, he reiterated. \u201cIt has to do with the rest of society where science fiction exists.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/samuel-delany-and-the-past-and-future-of-science-fiction\">Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction &#8211; The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>this is the final paragraph of a brief article that is worth your time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the contemporary science-fiction scene, [acclaimed author Samuel R.] Delany\u2019s race and sexuality do not set him apart as starkly as they once did. I suggested to him that it was particularly disappointing to see the kind of division represented by the Sad Puppies movement within a culture where marginalized people have often found acceptance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[296,455,290,340],"class_list":["post-11990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","tag-equity","tag-political-economy","tag-race","tag-science-fiction","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-37o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}