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...thing to lose, and I read a lot of sci-fi, new and old, before I realized that what is wrong with most of the good old favorites is the same thing that ails the newspapers: they give easy answers. Let me construct a typical passage...
...simple: it only makes sense when you're in a hurry, on a bus, or writing for someone to show up. Sci-fi writers are beginning to realize that most of what they do is just mental candy...
Then Frank Herbert wrote Dune: the sci-fi world is still recovering from that one. Men reading Dune tend to forget who they are: coming out of it. I felt like Rip Van Winkle after a twenty-year dream. Herbert's universe is rich and beautiful: more important, it is inexplicable. It is to be experienced, not reported...
...shifting your ass involved a good deal of clumsy commotion and perhaps a spilled coffee or two. The work crew must have collected a fined assortment of fallen articles from under the benches each evening: a few copies of Valley of the Dolls or Myra Breckenridge, maybe a Nat Sci 5 notebook, a Radcliffe bag lunch, assorted widowed gloves...
...Yesterday's meeting of Soc Sci 134, a scheduled debate between John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and two assistant professors of economics, Samuel Bowles and Arthur MacEwan, turned into an unheated discussion on the role of capitalism and bureaucracy in American society...