Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.
What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?
God is found in this Life. . . to wait for another is folly.
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.
The truth--a hideous spectacle!
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.