"My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is."
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"In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.“
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"Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state."
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"Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research."
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