“In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.”
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My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
