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In this episode of the  Strange Horizons  podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Lillian Wheeler's "ARIECC 1.0."

I read Arthur Krystal’s essay on genre fiction shortly after it came out in the October 24, 2012, issue of The New Yorker . It made me angry at the time. But I ignored it for a number of months.

Where there are tall buildings and many / Cars, the young call it the fertile jungle