[P]eople only make decisions based on what they know. You can have everyone in the country vote freely and democratically and still come up with the wrong answer – if the information they base that...

I don’t understand, Your Majesty. Of course, you don’t; you academics! Skarmak snarled. All you do is sit in your towers, trying to think your way into a reality that exists only in your own...

[A] couple I had known – who were old friends – asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration...