I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world. (John Thomas Sladek)

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

John Thomas Sladek

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