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Raymond Chandler writing about Science Fiction (hexbear.net)

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[–] regul@hexbear.net 27 points 5 days ago

Science Fiction as a genre has matured a lot since Chandler's time, I think. But also it's a bit rich to be a writer of another incredibly formulaic type of genre fiction and get real precious about a different one.