As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.
From Dan Simmons
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
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