Thread: What did you learn from reading fiction that you hadn't expected going in?
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Old 09-24-2010, 05:26 PM   #45
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Originally Posted by Joebill View Post
I don't know if a story I read in one of Harlan Ellison's 'Dangerous Visions' taught me anything... but it certainly startled me. It was called "The Barn"
A Piers Anthony story, I believe, and I suspect both Piers and Harlan would be pleased to have provoked that response. The books were trying to deliberately explore taboo topics that hadn't been touched in SF, largely because of "adult" content.
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