It's Not A Weapon Or A Woman

If Civilization Has An Opposite, It Is War.

It Is Useless Work That Darkens The Heart.

The Reader Can't Take Much For Granted In A Fiction Where The Scenery Can Eat The Characters.

It Win Be A Device That Will Permit Communication Without Any Time Interval Between Two Points In Space. The Device Will Not Transmit Messages, Of Course; Simultaneity Is Identity. But To Our Perceptions, That Simultaneity Will Function As A Transmission, A Sending. So We Will Be Able To Use It To Talk Between Worlds, Without The Long Waiting For The Message To Go And The Reply To Return That Electromagnetic Impulses Require. It Is Really A Very Simple Matter. Like A Kind Of Telephone.

There's Seldom As Much Hurry As I Used To Think There Was.