Sublime

Did the Ancient Hainish postulate that continuous sexual capacity and organized social aggression, neither of which are attributes of any mammal but man, are cause and effect?

Science fiction lends itself readily to imaginative subversion of any status quo.

for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice—the power of change, the essential function of life.

the global, intuitional language of fantasy to describe, as accurately as they can, the way “we” live “now.”

Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom.

Female solidarity might better be called fluidity—a stream or river rather than a structure.

And she tells me that the word fantasy also came to mean the imagination itself, “the process, the faculty, or the result of forming mental representations of things not actually present.” And again, those representations, those imaginations, can be true ones, or false. They can be the insights and foresights that make human life possible, or the d

Small communities with strong traditions are often clear about the way they want to go, and good at teaching it. But tradition may crystallise imagination to the point of fossilising it as dogma and forbidding new ideas. Larger communities, such as cities, open up room for people to imagine alternatives, learn from people of different traditions, a