I Differ With Myself Then

I'd Never Understood The Injunction Not To Regret Anything, Couldn't See How That Wasn't Cowardice.

My Job Is Not To Try To Give Readers What They Want But To Try To Make Readers Want What I Give.

I Think Science Fiction Is Very Bad At Prediction.

There Is No Knowing Beyond That Membrane, The Meniscus Of Death. What Can Be Seen From Here Is Distorted, Refracted. All We Can Know Are Those Untrustworthy Glimpses--that And Rumour. The Prattle. The Dead Gossip: It Is The Reverberation Of That Gossip Against The Surface Tension Of Death That The Better Mediums Hear. It Is Like Listening To Whispered Secrets Through A Toilet Door. It Is A Crude And Muffled Susurrus.

I Do, However, Feel Reasonably Strongly The Sense That The Job Of A Piece Of Argumentative Scholarly Non-fiction Is Not The Same As The Job Of A Piece Of Fiction.