I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..