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After years of schooling, I find that I have deeply internalized a distinction between reading for work and reading for fun. I’m a social scientist, so sociology, urban studies, political economy, geography, anthropology, etc., are all work. Fiction, by contrast, is fun. Of course, much of why I’m a social scientist is that I do enjoy and find myself engaged by my work reading (and part of why I chose not to study literature is that I didn’t want to risk ruining the fun).
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Passell, A. (2013). SF Novels and Sociological Experimentation. In: Thomas, P.L. (eds) Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction. Critical Literacy Teaching Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-380-5_4
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