Losing Our Ignorance Can Be Dangerous Because

Movie Sf Is, By Definition, Dumbed Down - There Have Only Been Three Or Four Sf Movies In The History Of Film That Aspire To The Complexity Of Literary Sf.

Stupidity Has A Price And It Always Gets Paid.

If There Is A True Religion In The Universe, It Must Include The Truth Of Contact Or Be Forever Hollow.

Words Bend Our Thinking To Infinite Paths Of Self-delusion, And The Fact That We Spend Most Of Our Mental Lives In Brain Mansions Built Of Words Means That We Lack The Objectivity Necessary To See The Terrible Distortion Of Reality Which Language Brings.

There Are Many Other Writers Whose Work I Admire Tremendously, But None Whose Work Struck Me At Just The Right Young Age. Jack Vance Taught Me That Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Could Be Wonderfully And Liberatingly Stylistic. It Didn't Have To Be Pulp Stuff. He Really Changed My Writing And My View Of Science Fiction, So If Nothing Else, My Little Homage To Him In The Novelette I Wrote For That Anthology Is My Thank-you To Him. He Helped Me See That Any Genre Can Have Excellent Writing In It.