Posted on 06/02/2021 7:24:32 PM PDT by tbw2
Author Andrew Fox’s first novel was Fat White Vampire Blues. He recently released a short story collection titled Hazardous Imaginings: The Mondo Book of Politically Incorrect Science Fiction.
Tamara Wilhite: Hazardous Imaginings seems to be modeled off of Harlan Ellison’s Dangerous Visions. Is that intentional?
Andrew Fox: Most assuredly. Not long after Harlan died, I watched a documentary on him that had been made pretty late in his life. Watching it and mulling over his career, I thought, “If Dangerous Visions were published today, what kinds of stories would it include?” That got me thinking about the issue of taboos in science fiction, what gatekeepers, editors, and opinion leaders in the field shy away from, discourage, or ignore. What was taboo back in 1967 is not only acceptable in the science fiction field today, it is celebrated and widely published and awarded. Today’s science fictional taboos are viewpoints and ideas that fall outside the progressive bubble that so many of present-day editors and gatekeepers inhabit.
I also remembered, with sadness and resentment, the treatment of my good friend Barry N. Malzberg, an award-winning science fiction writer with a fifty-year-long career whom I’ve admired since I was a teen, by the editors and readers of the Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFFWA) in 2013. Barry and his frequent collaborator, fellow award-winner Mike Resnick, had a long-running column in the Bulletin called “The Resnick-Malzberg Dialogues”.
(Excerpt) Read more at libertyislandmag.com ...
An Interview with Author Andrew Fox
https://libertyislandmag.com/2020/11/07/an-interview-with-author-andrew-fox/
“Fat White Vampire Blues” Don’t really dig this kind of lit, but that is a great title!
Science Fiction has long been a ghetto in the literature world. But it has also been a powerhouse in the realm of new ideas and unfortunately the left has taken over too much of the genre.
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