The Value Of A Thing

There Had Been A Popular Joke On Freedom, Started By A Man Named Calder. Looking Down From Space, He Had Said, The Dominant Life Forms On Earth Were Obviously The Cereals And Other Grasses. They Occupied All The Most Desirable And Fertile Land; And They Had Tamed Insects And Animals To Care For Them. In Particular, They Had Domesticated The Bipeds To Nurture And Cultivate Them And To Save And Plant Their Seed. Now, Watching The Farmers, Alex Could Easily Imagine That They Were Worshiping And Genuflecting Before Their Masters.

Species Evolve To Meet The Environment. An Intelligent Species Changes The Environment To Suit Itself. As Soon As A Species Becomes Intelligent, It Should Stop Evolving.

Building One Space Station For Everyone Was And Is Insane: We Should Have Built A Dozen.

I Am Trying To Prevent A Bloodbath. Is That Clear Enough For You? I'm Trying To Prevent A Civil War That Could Kill Half The People In This World.

Sf Isn't A Genre; Sf Is The Matrix In Which Genres Are Embedded, And Because The Sf Field Is Never Going In Any One Direction At Any One Time, There Is Hardly A Way To Cut It Off.