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America Is A Nation Of Liars, And For That Reason Science Fiction Has A Special Claim To Be Our National Literature, As The Art Form Best Adapted To Telling The Lies We Like To Hear And To Pretend We Believe.

But The Toaster Was Quite Satisfied With Itself, Thank You. Though It Knew From Magazines That There Were Toasters Who Could Toast Four Slices At A Time, It Didn't Think That The Master, Who Lived Alone And Seemed To Have Few Friends, Would Have Wanted A Toaster Of Such Institutional Proportions. With Toast, It's Quality That Matters, Not Quantity.

A Predilection For Genre Fiction Is Symptomatic Of A Kind Of Arrested Development.

Gene Wolfe Has Produced A Work Of Art That Can Satisfy Adult Appetites And In Which Even The Most Fantastical Elements Register As Poetry Rather Than As Penny-whistle Whimsy.

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