Suggestion Is A Literary Strategy.

Everyone In A Position Of Authority Is Hysterical, And Everyone Else Is Pretending To Be Asleep.

In A Very Real Way, One Writes A Story To Find Out What Happens In It. Before It Is Written It Sits In The Mind Like A Piece Of Overheard Gossip Or A Bit Of Intriguing Tattle. The Story Process Is Like Taking Up Such A Piece Of Gossip, Hunting Down The People Actually Involved, Questioning Them, Finding Out What Really Occurred, And Visiting Pertinent Locations. As With Gossip, You Can't Be Too Surprised If Important Things Turn Up That Were Left Out Of The First-heard Version Entirely; Or If Points Initially Made Much Of Turn Out To Have Been Distorted, Or Simply Not To Have Happened At All.

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.

All Too Often, When Creative People Pick Out Someone Else's Creative Work As An Inspiration, What They End Up With Is Very, Very Far From The Original.

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.