"Placing [Walter] Benjamin's quotation from Baudelaire in a fantasy context produces a very different effect from placing the same quotation in an SF context. And both effects are distinct from that which would result from placing it within an example of the literary genre Todorov called 'the Fantastic' -or, indeed, placing it in a piece of 'scientific' literary naturalism, e.g., Zola, or Sinclair Lewis"
ur "The tale of plagues and carnivals" i Flight from Nevèrÿon av Samuel R. Delany
"There followed some curses that combined terms for women's genitals, men's excreta, and cooking implements in truly novel ways."
ur "The game of time and pain" i Return to Nevèrÿon av Samuel R. Delany
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