2/ ...but I don't know if he wrote any SF at all up until Appleseed c. 2000 <google> ok, he wrote one earlier novel still, my point holds. Criticism CAN be a very skillful practice, and it's distinct from generation.
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3/ ...mmm... I think I disagree with this. The ideal critic is not one who tells midwits what midwits will think of a given work; he is someone skillful who can help EDUCATE enthusiastic but unsophisticated consumers so as to better appreciate art https://twitter.com/ZeroBolusZero/status/1290715977227874305 …
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4/ I'm not saying that I'm a good critic, or even a critic at all, but I'm reminded of something I tweeted a while back, about how I was flipping through Spider Robinson's Three California triptych and realized that in each of the three novels the protagonists in a future Cali >
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5/ ...dug holes in the ground and found fragments of the old California which had preceded them, and how each thing they found was thematically aligned with the plot / purpose of the novel. Me pointing that out to readers lets them appreciate a level of craft that they might
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6/ not notice on their own, but having had their attention called to it, can (a) now appreciate the art in a different light, (b) bring that new sophistication to other pieces of art and appreciate them that way as well. CRITICISM IS A FORM OF CULTURAL TRANSMISSION
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Concur. Listen to the Beatles discuss music theory. They all had an intuitive understanding of chord structure & al, but they were rubbish at explaining it in technical terms. Two distinct skill sets.
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