“This is why I love SF. I love to read it; I love to write it. The SF writer sees not just possibilities but wild possibilities. It's not just "What if…" It's "My God; what if…"”

—  Philip K. Dick

In frenzy and hysteria.
Introduction to The Golden Man (1980)

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