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Ursula Le Guin rebuts charge that science fiction is 'alternative fact'

Written By Unknown on Friday, February 3, 2017 | 8:10 AM

Replying to newspaper claim that SF has much in common with the variant accounts of reality offered by Trump staff, author says ‘a fact has no alternative’

Science fiction has nothing in common with the Trump administration’s “alternative facts”, distinguished sci-fi novelist Ursula Le Guin said this week.

The hugely influential author dismissed claims of a relationship between the two after the Oregonian newspaper published a letter that said that the “alternative facts” of the US president and allies including press secretary Kellyanne Conway – who first coined the phrase – had much in common with sci-fi and fantasy writing.

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via Science fiction | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2k35hWA

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