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This edition of the New Yorker Out Loud podcast features all four of the fiction writers from the science-fiction double issue. Jonathan Lethem discusses the slippery nature of the science-fiction classification. “The name’s always been a mistake,” he says. “I’d say that it’s all gray. The categories themselves are as gray as the area between them.” He talks about liking science fiction as a child, before he knew that “science fiction” existed.
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Jonathan Lethem has a haunting new story of astronauts stranded on a space station in this week's New Yorker. "Lostronaut" is a depressingly bleak, yet beautiful, story told in the form of an astronaut's letters home to a loved one.... Read Post