Is Star Wars science fiction or fantasy?
What a deliciously ambiguous sentence! I’ll take the intended reading and say that although I’m a bit anti-Star Wars myself, and have avoided it rather assiduously since childhood, I’d be perfectly content to stick it pretty generally under a fiction banner, or if I must streamline a little more, then speculative fiction. I’m not so much into labeling things and dividing things neatly and slotting them in here and there and trying to align them as though they are pieces of something purchased from Ikea, but acknowledge that people are pretty reductive, as are marketing gurus, so it’s something pretty inevitable. Tell me a little about Painting Walls in the Town of N—. What was the first image or phrase or impetus that made you sit down and spin it out? I have a document on my computer that contains the sentence ‘we painted the wall with cracks’, which was obviously the image that kicked off the story. Beyond that, I’m not entirely sure where it came from, or how it came to be. It did s
