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Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.
Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist’s business is lying.
Truth is a matter of the imagination.
If by patriotism you don’t mean the love of one’s homeland, for that I do know.” “No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear.
One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies,
Material profit. Increase of knowledge. The augmentation of the complexity and intensity of the field of intelligent life. The enrichment of harmony and the greater glory of God. Curiosity. Adventure. Delight.”
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer,
Therem, my friend, there’s nothing to fear between us.”
The Left Hand of Darkness also left us with a piece of map that leads to another way of telling stories.
