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[GUEST POST] Writing About Race in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Part 1 of a Roundtable Interview)

Dear SF Signal Readers,

Hi! My name’s Zack Jernigan. I conducted this roundtable interview over the last year. Just so you know, I wrote a long, painfully self-conscious introduction about my upbringing as a white, heterosexual male born into a middle-middle-class family and how that contributed to my desire to start a discussion on the subject of Writing About Race in Sff Literature, but I scrapped it. When you’ve received such amazing responses from your interviewees, it’s best to get to them with the minimum of words.

So: Suffice it to say, this is an important topic for discussion. I hope that you enjoy reading this first part, that you’ll return for the second, and that you’ll feel free to comment. I also encourage you to visit the authors’ websites and buy their amazing work.

And enjoy!

Dear SF Writers

Despite what decades of SF claims, if all the varieties of humanity intermarry, you do not end up with some bland average of all the traits but a population comparable in diversity to the one prior to widespread intermarriage.

I am also somewhat dubious someone in a setting where everyone looks more or less the same would feel the need to lampshade the fact that everyone looks more or less the same (except on that one planet in Search the Sky).

Apparently

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