I recommend to you a story called "One Was Stubborn," I wrote one time many, many, many years ago, 1939, in a society where everybody had everything done for them. This was intensely unpopular, this story. It was intensely unpopular with the editor. He really writhed over it, but he had a hole in the magazine created by a shortage, by namely me, and so he bought it and he published it. And this -- this story, this story, of course, is the kid of all science fiction. Naturally, everything is … [Read more...] about Lecture: Reviewing Students’ Ability to Process (1953)
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Lecture: Technique 88: Confusion (1952)
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There are five invader forces active and one aborning. That is to say, there are six invader forces in total, but the one “aborning” is not active at all. It is really in its infancy. It will probably be several million years before you even see this one begin to lift its head very far. Counting from the first time most of you hit the track, counting from then (about 60 trillion years ago in the MEST universe) some of you hit the track 60 trillion years ago MEST universe, and some of you didn’t … [Read more...] about Lecture: Technique 88: Confusion (1952)