{"id":368,"date":"2009-03-20T05:41:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T13:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=368"},"modified":"2009-03-20T05:42:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T13:42:28","slug":"368","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"The Genre That Dare Not Speak Its Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2009\/03\/mind-meld-taboo-topics-in-sff-literature\/\">Mind Meld<\/a> is at it again.\u00a0 This time they asked a bunch of us about taboos in sf, and the responses run the gamut. Steve Aylett laments the conservatism of the genre.\u00a0 Glenda Larke seems to contradict herself. \u00a0 Kristine Rusch and Mark Budz channel Pollyanna.\u00a0 Margo Lanagan has obviously walked the walk.\u00a0 Anna Tambour has an asterisk fetish.\u00a0 Jason Sanford grumbles about the genre&#8217;s incessant realism.\u00a0 Nancy Jane Moore sees ghettos within ghettos. Ellen Kushner is, IMHO, sadly unappreciative of the joys of constant profanity. Hal Duncan makes good points, but I&#8217;m not sure I agree with them.\u00a0 David Levine wishes poly and bdsm were portrayed more positively, and I think I <em>do <\/em>agree with that.\u00a0 Neal Asher has evidently never checked out the prose in the novels of Dan Brown or <span class=\"ptBrand\">Stephenie Meyer.\u00a0 And John Wright, speaking from the Comments section, inadvertently improves upon Tolkien.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ptBrand\">But <em>I<\/em> got to go first.\u00a0 And I used that position to decry science fiction&#8217;s failure to reach out to the twenty-first century&#8217;s pro-incest lobby.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind Meld is at it again.\u00a0 This time they asked a bunch of us about taboos in sf, and the responses run the gamut. Steve Aylett laments the conservatism of the genre.\u00a0 Glenda Larke seems to contradict herself. \u00a0 Kristine Rusch and Mark Budz channel Pollyanna.\u00a0 Margo Lanagan has obviously walked the walk.\u00a0 Anna Tambour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ink-on-art","category-public-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}