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When I talked to Cory Doctorow during TorCon back in June, the author spoke about speculative fiction as “a sort of diagnostic tool,” comparing storytelling to the scientific process a doctor goes through when using a nasal swab to diagnose an illness.
“When you want to solve something, you often simplify it,” said Doctorow, “like when the doctor sticks a swab up your nose, sticks it into a petri dish, and looks at it later. She’s not trying to build an accurate 1:1 scale model of your body, because it’s too complicated. She wants to build a little world in a jar in which one fact about your body is the whole world, whatever that gunk is that’s growing in your nasal tract.”
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Doctorow continued: “Science fiction writers can reach into the world and pluck out a single piece of technology and build a world around it, not as an accurate model of the world, but of a usefully inaccurate model, a model that’s so streamlined that you can then take a little emotional fly-through of it to get a sense for what it might be like if things go on or if things are changed. And it gives us a vocabulary to think about change as it comes along, and it gives us a handy set of ideas to grab onto, like a toolkit for when change comes.”
We’re giving away five copies of Attack Surface, in honor of its recent release. Click on the link below to enter the giveaway.
The giveaway will be running until October 26th. Winners will be chosen on October 28th and notified via email. Unfortunately, the giveaway is only open to residents of the United States and Canada. Good luck!
If you’d like to buy your own copy of Attack Surface, it is available to purchase now wherever books are sold. You can find out more here. And you can check out my full TorCon conversation with Doctorow and Nnedi Okorafor below…
