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• Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run…
• Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
• Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise…
• I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I've ever…
• Suggestion is a literary strategy.
• Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at…
• It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to…
• It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in…
• What you are will make you what you will become.
• The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male…
• From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.
• I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

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