Fun writing technique for speculative fiction

"How frustrating it must be to always place sensual markers in the environment—to endlessly orient in space and time. I suspect machine-kind is freer of such things—and yet, the very nature of this project may cage us in the same kinds of cravings for groundedness and placement because it soothes the restlessness I am beginning to see is an essential part of the emotional and relational template of the human being.
-E"


I really enjoy using these little "peeks" into the mind of my machine-kind in the new science fiction work I am finishing up. I've found starting each chapter this way, a technique really perfected by Frank Herbert in his Dune series, allows the reader to more deeply engage not just with characters but with the entire world(s) the author is creating. In this novel, called Folds of the Script, I am actually using these short chapter headers as a meta-frame for the entire story, not just as a way to broaden or deepen a reader's understanding. It has been an interesting experiment so far...