I Took My Writing Seriously, And It

Dictators During The Entire History Of This Planet Have Used Similar Techniques. By Not Letting The People Of Their Country Know What Conditions Existed Outside Their Boundaries, They Could Get The People To Fight To Stay In Those Conditions. It Was The Old Adage: Convince A Slave That He's Free , And He Will Fight To Maintain His Slavery .

Each Of Us, With Money, Gets Further And Further Away From Those Moments Where The Hand Pulls The Beet Root From The Soil, Shakes The Fish From The Net Into The Basket -- Not To Mention The Way It Separates Us From One Another, So That When Enough Money Comes Between People, They Lie Apart Like Parts Of A Chicken Hacked Up For Stewing.

There Is A Sense Of Decency That's Like A Barometer To A Man's Or A Country's Health.

Suggestion Is A Literary Strategy.

Science Fiction Isn’t Just Thinking About The World Out There. It’s Also Thinking About How That World Might Be—a Particularly Important Exercise For Those Who Are Oppressed, Because If They’re Going To Change The World We Live In, They—and All Of Us—have To Be Able To Think About A World That Works Differently.