I love you sons of bitches. You're all I read any more. You're the only ones who'll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that'll last for billions of years. You're the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us, what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Science fiction writers are unique in their long-term vision and concern for humanity's future.
- In plain terms
- Sci-fi writers care deeply about the distant future and big problems.
- What can you take from it?
- Support those who think about the long-term future.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What does the future hold?
- Who thinks about the long term?
Another view
Not only sci-fi writers care about the future.
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