This is (I think) my first ever reblog. I always enjoy Morgan’s posts, and anything Neil Gaiman says is worth listening to, but when this includes talking about the value of LIBRARIES….I”M IN!
Neil Gaiman visited China in 2007 for the first ever, party-approved, Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention. He asked a top official what had changed; in the past, these genres had been disparaged. The official said his government had realized they were good at making other people’s inventions, but they didn’t invent or imagine new things themselves.
“So they sent a delegation to the US, to Apple, to Microsoft, to Google,” Gaiman explained, “and they asked the people there who were inventing the future about themselves. And they found that all of them had read science fiction when they were boys or girls.”
Gaiman told this story while giving the 2013 Reading Agency annual lecture on the future of reading and libraries. The Reading Agency is a British charity that supports libraries and literacy programs, with the mission of giving everyone “an equal chance in life by helping people become confident…
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