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Nicola Griffith:
genre fiction seems to be the perfect medium to explore hard themes of identity, our relation to the world, our relation to each other. do you agree? if you do, could you tell us more about your feelings about genre fiction? (i would not consider historical fiction genre fiction, honestly, so i wasn't thinking about Hild, but maybe you do!)
Nicola Griffith
I think all fiction can explore identity. Science fiction has one advantage: it can make the metaphor concrete. It's disadvantage, of course, is that in the hands of lesser writers all the air is used in the effort of world-building.
The big challenge of HILD was writing A Novel set 1400 years ago: creating systems and world views utterly different from today while still leaving lots of space for other things. Difficult, but intensely rewarding.
The big challenge of HILD was writing A Novel set 1400 years ago: creating systems and world views utterly different from today while still leaving lots of space for other things. Difficult, but intensely rewarding.
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Jul 16, 2014 05:39PM · flag