{"text":"The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.","author":"Philip José Farmer","tags":["fairy-tale","genre","kurt-vonnegut","parable","ray-bradbury","science-fiction"],"id":816,"author_id":"Philip+Jos%C3%A9+Farmer"}