I think the people who believe that works can and always should be divorced from the context are people who have the privilege to do so. N. K. Jemisin Read Quote
There’s a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don’t know that other groups of people of color have that same recourse. N. K. Jemisin Read Quote
All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish. N. K. Jemisin Read Quote
Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur. N. K. Jemisin Read Quote
I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history. N. K. Jemisin Read Quote
To some degree, as I move outside of the exclusive genre audience, the exclusive genre issues don’t bother me as much. Maybe that’s just speculation. N. K. Jemisin Read Quote
It’s hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there’s all these ‘rules’ I’m supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines. N. K. Jemisin Read Quote
This is magic we’re talking about. It’s supposed to go places science can’t, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own. N. K. Jemisin Read Quote
