On This Day I Want To Tell

When I Sit Down To The Feast Of Life ... I'm So Busy Planning On How To Pick Up The Check, And Wondering What The Other People Think Of Me For Paying It, And Wondering If I Have Enough Money In My Pocket To Pay The Bill, That I Don't Get Around To Eating.

I Was Thinking Of Writing A Little Foreword Saying That History Is, After All, Based On People's Recollections, Which Change With Time.

You Don't Think Progress Goes In A Straight Line, Do You? Do You Recognize That It Is An Ascending, Accelerating, Maybe Even Exponential Curve? It Takes Hell's Own Time To Get Started, But When It Goes It Goes Like A Bomb.

A Good Science Fiction Story Should Be Able To Predict Not The Automobile But The Traffic Jam.

That's Really What Sf Is All About, You Know: The Big Reality That Pervades The Real World We Live In: The Reality Of Change. Science Fiction Is The Very Literature Of Change. In Fact, It Is The Only Such Literature We Have.