Advice To Beginning Sf Writers?

What Is The Shape Of Space? Is It Flat, Or Is It Bent? Is It Nicely Laid Out, Or Is It Warped And Shrunken? Is It Finite, Or Is It Infinite? Which Of The Following Does Space Resemble More: (a) A Sheet Of Paper, (b) An Endless Desert, (c) A Soap Bubble, (d) A Doughnut, (e) An Escher Drawing, (f) An Ice Cream Cone, (g) The Branches Of A Tree, Or (h) A Human Body?

Unfortunately Our Nation, Nay, Our World, Is Run By Evil Morons.

The World Is Colors And Motion, Feelings And Thoughts And What Does Math Have To Do With It? Not Much, If 'math' Means Being Bored In High School, But In Truth Mathematics Is The One Universal Science. Mathematics Is The Study Of Pure Pattern And Everything In The Cosmos Is A Kind Of Pattern.

It's Soothing To Realize That My Mind's Processes Are Inherently Uncontrollable.

Think Of A Field Of Daisies: They Bloom, They Wither, And In The Spring They Grow Again. Who Wants To See The Same Stupid Daisy Year After Year, Especially With A Bunch Of Crappy Iron-lung-type Equipment Bolted To It?