Everything Starts As Somebody's Daydream.

Any Damn Fool Can Predict The Past.

There Is A Technical, Literary Term For Those Who Mistake The Opinions And Beliefs Of Characters In A Novel For Those Of The Author. The Term Is 'idiot'.

Bruce Sterling Is One Terrific Writer And He's Relatively New, But I Don't Know How Long He's Been Doing It; He Probably Doesn't Need The Publicity Anymore!

There Had Been A Popular Joke On Freedom, Started By A Man Named Calder. Looking Down From Space, He Had Said, The Dominant Life Forms On Earth Were Obviously The Cereals And Other Grasses. They Occupied All The Most Desirable And Fertile Land; And They Had Tamed Insects And Animals To Care For Them. In Particular, They Had Domesticated The Bipeds To Nurture And Cultivate Them And To Save And Plant Their Seed. Now, Watching The Farmers, Alex Could Easily Imagine That They Were Worshiping And Genuflecting Before Their Masters.

In The World Of Words The Imagination Is One Of The Forces Of Nature.