“Social morality requires a shared matrix of communal reality to which to relate thought and deed, and the illusion of an objective ethical esthetic requires at the very least the conviction that objective reality is more than a contradiction in terms.”

Source: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 14 (p. 177)

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American science fiction writer and critic 1940

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