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Virtual Memories Show #131:
\nJohn Clute – Ever After<\/a><\/p>\n

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“In Fantastika, the metaphor tends to move to the literal. In a naturalistic novel, the literal tends to move into a metaphor.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"clute_med\"<\/a>John Clute<\/a>, winner of multiple Hugo Awards and World Fantasy Awards, joins the show to talk about the history of science fiction, its market-based ghettoization and eventual superseding of realist fiction, the advantages of reaching one’s 70s and what it means to live after one’s time, his\u00a0bar-coding model of identity and interaction and the loss of prestige<\/a>, why the loss of streetcars explains so much about our time, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

“I’m kind of addicted to aftermath as a description of a particular kind of literature, of art, of music. . . . I think Bob Dylan is the greatest aftermath singer-songwriter who ever lived.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John also talks pretty extensively about Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel, The Buried Giant<\/a>\"\" and how most critics got\u00a0it wrong, his own obsession with ‘aftermath culture,’ the clash of temporal personalities and atemporal idiots, and the history of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction<\/a>, which he co-edited with David Langord (and others). Plus, I get to break the news about the establishment of the Clute Science Fiction Library at Telluride!
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“In an age of chaos, in which recognitions are fleeting, it seems to be manifestly interesting to work out how stories are being told so that they stay in the mind long enough to remember them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We talk about some books and movies in this episode. Here’s a list of ’em (Note: if I ever go to a Patreon crowdfunding model for the show, this is the first thing that goes subscriber-only)<\/em>:<\/p>\n