If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are … - Bruce Sterling

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Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

Bruce Sterling

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 make us seem harmless.

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