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Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but i wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.
-Ursula K. Le Guin
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Genre Fiction Was Looked At As A

Ursula K. Le Guin
Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but i wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.
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