"Sophisticated readers are accepting the fact that an improbable and unmanageable world is going to produce an improbable and hypothetical art...The fantasist, whether he uses the ancient archetypes of myth and legend or the younger ones of science and technology, may be talking as seriously as any sociologist--and a good deal more directly--about human life as it is lived, and as it might be lived, and as it ought to be lived. For after all, as great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."
Ursula Le Guin
National Book Award acceptance speech
2 weeks ago
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