So I'm not sure why I like Kelly Link so much. Yes, I respond, but fuckin, I can't even read Phillip K Dick unless it's Valis, which is just him being paranoid and ranting about how much god can suck it. But oh! Sci-Fi is a genre, and Kelly Link tends to work in worlds that mostly resemble our own, you say. I read- uh, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn when I was fourteen, fifteen years ago, and haven't been able to get interested in a book with a dragon in it since, I don't think. I'm like, I guess these count as fantasy stories lots of the time, and that's clearly the community Ms Link is coming from, and about which she tends to talk, but still, her stories engage me in a way that genre stuff consistently doesn't. Y'know how people will be like, 'I don't really listen to rap stuff, but I really liked that Nas album,' or whatever, and then you know that Nas album is probably not super representative of hip-hop? I don't really read fantasy, or sci-fi, but I fuckin love Kelly Link.
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