I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There's a story and there's a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader's attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

And I've been wearing specs since I was three.

The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?

A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.