we call it fiction because it isn’t fact

Ursula K Le Guin awesome as ever:

Ursula Le Guin on fiction vs. ‘alternative facts’ 

A recent letter … compares a politician’s claim to tell “alternative facts” to the inventions of science fiction.  The comparison won’t work.  We fiction writers make up stuff.  Some of it clearly impossible, some of it realistic, but none of it real – all invented, imagined – and we call it fiction because it isn’t fact.

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