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Book News: George R.R. Martin Was Told Sci-Fi Would Rot His Brain
by ANNALISA QUINN
August 12, 2014 8:47 AM ET
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin told an audience at the Edinburgh International Literary Festival that his teachers said sci-fi would rot his mind. "When I was 12 or 13, I had teachers take away science fiction books by [Robert A.] Heinlein and [Isaac] Asimov and say: 'You're a smart kid, you get good grades. Why are you reading this trash? They rot your mind. You should be reading Silas Marner,'" Martin said, according to the Guardian, a co-sponsor of the festival. He added, "It is an artificial distinction anyway – literary fiction in its present form is a genre itself."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/12/339786502/book-news-george-r-r-martin-was-told-sci-fi-would-rot-his-brain
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