Keep Violence In The Mind

The Feat Represents Immense Achievement For The Neotenic Ape, Species Homo Sapiens. But Behind This Lie Twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.

That's The Artist's Role - To Strike Out Always For Something New, To Break Away, To Defy, To... Grapple With The Unfamiliar.

Science Fiction Is No More Written For Scientists Than Ghost Stories Are Written For Ghosts.

The Fatal Error Of Much Science Fiction Has Been To Subscribe To An Optimism Based On The Idea That Revolution, Or A New Gimmick, Or A Bunch Of Strong Men, Or An Invasion Of Aliens, Or The Conquest Of Other Planets, Or The Annihilation Of Half The World--in Short, Pretty Nearly Anything But The Facing Up To The Integral And Irredeemable Nature Of Mankind--can Bring About Utopian Situations. It Is The Old Error Of The Externalization Of Evil.

Whatever Creativity Is, It Is In Part A Solution To A Problem.