Science Fiction Is For Real, Space Opera

If More People Had Put Their Fellow Human Beings Before Abstractions Last Century, We Shouldn't Be Where We Are Now.

We Belong To An Age Where Apocalypse Is Our Daily Bread, Coffee's Black, And We Know We're Part Of The Abyss. Red Spider White Web Is Right On Target In Conveying That Understanding. It Splinters In The Mind... The Underworld Of The Century's Imaginings.

It's A National Failing To Think Of Politics As Something That Goes On In Parliament. It Isn't; It's Something That Goes On Inside Us.

The Fatal Error Of Much Science Fiction Has Been To Subscribe To An Optimism Based On The Idea That Revolution, Or A New Gimmick, Or A Bunch Of Strong Men, Or An Invasion Of Aliens, Or The Conquest Of Other Planets, Or The Annihilation Of Half The World--in Short, Pretty Nearly Anything But The Facing Up To The Integral And Irredeemable Nature Of Mankind--can Bring About Utopian Situations. It Is The Old Error Of The Externalization Of Evil.

Civilization Is The Distance Man Has Placed Between Himself And His Excreta.