“ People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. ”
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
~ Frederik Pohl
I perceived quite early that I was a reader, and most of the people I came into contact with were not. It made a barrier. What they wanted to talk about were things they had eaten, touched, or done. What I wanted to talk about was what I had read.
They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.
For twenty years and more the whole planet had been bombed, raped, ravaged, and gouged by people whose fury had so exceeded their judgment that the only thing they could think of to do to express their discontent was to kill somebody.
