All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything.
Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards - are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.
I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.