Suggestion Is A Literary Strategy.

Spending Practically Every Minute Of Your Day On Pure Survival Is An Absolutely Boring Life.

Dictators During The Entire History Of This Planet Have Used Similar Techniques. By Not Letting The People Of Their Country Know What Conditions Existed Outside Their Boundaries, They Could Get The People To Fight To Stay In Those Conditions. It Was The Old Adage: Convince A Slave That He's Free , And He Will Fight To Maintain His Slavery .

Babes, I Am So Bored Here That I Don't Think, Since I've Come, I've Ever Been More Than Three Minutes Away From Some Really Astonishing Act Of Violence.

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.

The Pleasures Of Love Are Really Quite Wonderful--though I Suspect They Are Rather A Luxury And Require A Certain Level Of Socioeconomic Stability To Be Anything Other Than A Mode Of Suffering.