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Mythophysics of the New Normal

The future is on the whole a wonderful thing because it will bring us new things that we haven’t seen before. And that’s why we stick around.

Imaginary London

What I’d like to to look at is alternative versions of London, unbuilt buildings, different structures from fantastical literature (science fiction, that sort of thing), and just see how that reframes the city that we inhabit every day. How it makes us see it with perhaps new eyes.

The Neil Gaiman 2008 Julius Schwartz Lecture at MIT

What is genre? I think it’s probably a set of assumptions, and it’s a loose contract between a creator and an audience. But for most of you, genre is something that tells you where to look in a book shop or a video store.