Lost Is Science Fiction - Lost Is A Metaphor
The following quotes are from the Introduction to Ursula LeGuin's, "The
Left Hand of Darkness"
-The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie.
-Science fiction is not predicted, it is descriptive.
-The novelist's business is lying.
-Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say.
-All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in
this world
-Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth
-But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way...
-and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say,
There! That's the truth!
-In fact, while we read a novel, we are insane
-I talk about the gods, I am an atheist.
-But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar.
-Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
-The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie.
-Psychologically defined, a symbol.
-Aesthetically defined, a metaphor.
-This book is not about the future.
-I am not predicting, or prescribing. I am describing.
-All fiction is metaphor.
-Science fiction is metaphor.
-A metaphor for what?
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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels,
poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the
fantasy and science fiction genres.
She has received several Hugo and Nebula awards, and was awarded the
Gandalf Grand Master award in 1979 and the Science Fiction and Fantasy
Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2003.
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Resources:
http://hackvan.com/pub/stig/scripture/Ursula-LeGuin-on-science-fiction-mythology.txt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
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