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We Live In A World Ruled By Fictions Of Every Kind - Mass Merchandising, Advertising, Politics Conducted As A Branch Of Advertising, The Instant Translation Of Science And Technology Into Popular Imagery, The Increasing Blurring And Intermingling Of Identities Within The Realm Of Consumer Goods, The Preempting Of Any Free Or Original Imaginative Response To Experience By The Television Screen. We Live Inside An Enormous Novel.

All You Do Is Get On And Start Pedaling . . .

I Believe That If It Were Possible To Scrap The Whole Of Existing Literature, All Writers Would Find Themselves Inevitably Producing Something Very Close To Sf ... No Other Form Of Fiction Has The Vocabulary Of Ideas And Images To Deal With The Present, Let Alone The Future.

Human Beings Today Are Surrounded By Huge Institutions We Can Never Penetrate: The City, The Banking System, Political And Advertising Conglomerates, Vast Entertainment Enterprises. They've Made Themselves User Friendly, But They Define The Tastes To Which We Conform. They're Rather Subtle, Subservient Tyrants, But No Less Sinister For That.

A General Rule: If Enough People Predict Something, It Won't Happen.