People often ask N.K. Jemisin, award-winning fantasy author and critic, why she writes science fiction and fantasy as opposed to more "serious" fiction. She says she responds the same way trailblazing writer Octavia Butler did: because you can do anything in science fiction. "If you are trying to reimagine the world, it's a lot easier to do that when you can build the world from scratch," Jemisin said. "There's a misconception that these genres are about the future or the past, but they are about our present world - the fears and anger and responses to the present world of the writer.

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