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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

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.

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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.

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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.

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I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.

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