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Some Bruce Sterling quotes from 

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From the Catscan columns in "Science Fiction Eye":
      
    "For Lem, science fiction is a documented form of   
    thought-experiment: a spearhead of cognition.      

    "Here Lem has finessed an irrevocable choice. It    
    is a choice every science fiction writer faces. Is 
    the writer to write Real Novels which 'only happen to
    be' science fiction--or create knobby and irreducible
    SF artifacts which are not true 'stories,' but     
    visionary texts?                                   

    "But it's still a trick, and the central question is
    still unresolved. What is 'science fiction,' anyway
    And what's it there for?"                          
                                                       


A Bruce Sterling quote, from the preface 
to William Gibson's "Burning Chrome" 

   "If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the
   world, science-fiction writers are its court jesters. We
   are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies and
   scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas
   because the garish motley of our pulp origins makes us
   seem harmless."


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