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Happy international women’s day! Just a small reminder that the science fiction genre was invented by a teenage girl, and that you wouldn’t have your apocalyptic sci-fi, your Batman or your Han Solo, if it weren’t for women. Take that misogynistic geek boys!
Tag: literature
Margaret Atwood.
How magic conquered pop culture: ”In the real world we’re busy staring at our phones as global warming gradually renders the world we’re ignoring uninhabitable. Fantasy holds out the possibility that there’s another way to live.”
Illustration by Nick Iluzada for TIME.
“I needed to get familiar with sex, and it would be just as well to practise first with a boy I didn’t care about too much. Then later on, if I was with someone special, I’d have more chance of doing everything right.”
— Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go



