The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.

Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?