Personally, I’d like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if it’s going to b — Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions
Personally, I’d like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if it’s going to b — Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions
Personally, I’d like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if it’s going to b — Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions
Personally, I’d like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if it’s going to b — Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions
Personally, I’d like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if it’s going to b — Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions
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Personally, I’d like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if it’s going to be so overloaded with meanings it’s just gibberish skewed to self-serving doublethink.

— Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions
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