In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

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.

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself.

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.