Only People With Full Stomachs Become Environmentalists.

Many People Have Tried To Define Science Fiction. I Like To Call It The Literature Of Exploration And Change. While Other Genres Obsess Upon So-called Eternal Verities, Sf Deals With The Possibility That Our Children May Have Different Problems. They May, Indeed, Be Different Than We Have Been.

Gaia Spins On, Silently Contemplating What It Means To Be Born Into A Sarcastic Universe.

In Contrast, Markets - Oft Mythologized As "natural" Are The Most Unnatural Things Going. Libertarians Will Tell You "market Laws Are Laws Of Nature", What Baloney. Markets - And The Other Great Modernist Cornucopian Tools - Are Magnificent Wealth Generating Machines, Built Ad-hoc, Through Trial And Error, Constantly Fine-tuned And Refined, Tinkered, Adjusted.

Beware Of Self-indulgence. The Romance Surrounding The Writing Profession Carries Several Myths: That One Must Suffer In Order To Be Creative; That One Must Be Cantankerous And Objectionable In Order To Be Bright; That Ego Is Paramount Over Skill; That One Can Rise To A Level From Which One Can Tell The Reader To Go To Hell. These Myths, If Believed, Can Ruin You. If You Believe You Can Make A Living As A Writer, You Already Have Enough Ego.

Beware Of Assumptions That Seem "obvious" In One Decade. They May Become Quaint In The Next.