Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

Give us power, give us light To holdall love within our breast's small space.

By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates through the strands and affects every man.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

Nature is an experimenter.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.