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Article: Northern Dreamers: Interviews with Famous Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writers.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- March 22, 1999
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Edo van Belkom, ed. Northern Dreamers: Interviews with Famous Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writers. Ontario, Canada: Quarry P, 1998. 254 pp.
SCIENCE FICTION, fantasy and horror are genres which lean upon, parallel and even merge with utopian/dystopian projects. Take, for example, the comments of Tanya Huff, a fantasy writer, and one of the interviewees in Northern Dreamers who speaks of "the joy of creating an entire world to support the story you want to tell" or the pleasure in "toss[ing] one little thing, say the existence of magic or vampires, and watch the ripples of change spread" (129). Utopianists certainly engage in the same experiences though ...