I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.
Interpretation
The quote expresses gratitude towards the science fiction community for providing support during difficult times.
Nalo Hopkinson reflects on how the science fiction genre and its community have been a source of solace and support for her and her partner during challenging periods in their lives. She acknowledges the importance of this community in helping them navigate hardships, emphasizing the profound impact that shared interests and connections can have on personal well-being.
In practice
In a speech at a sci-fi convention to highlight the power of community support.
You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
If we examine the accomplishments of man in his most advanced endeavors, in theory and in practice, we find that the cell has done all this long before him, with greater resourcefulness and much greater efficiency.
I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.
The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.
You don't have money, you can't do science. But that's part of the price that I pay.
For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
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