Fiction SF has been written off with repeated vehemence, perhaps because it challenges so many preconceptions. In a work of science fiction the reader must grant the premise that whatever is stated, as literal and true. For gifts given, something always is taken. Gifts in the hands have fangs and bonds. The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
Conversation is the enemy of food and good wine.
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them. Alfred Hitchcock Being an oddity doesn't bother me, as long as I'm a thought-provoking one. Sunspot activity is beyond the control of the phone company. Like all great art, it defies the tyrant Time. Knowledge is the enemy of tyranny in any disguise.