As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.
John BrunnerWe fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way thatโs better.
John Brunnerto travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other
John Brunner