I don't think that as a culture today we're very interested in tradition or continuity. No, we're a lot more interested in being a New Age and a revo… - Bruce Sterling

Working seriously, improving your taste and perception and understanding, knowing what you are and where you came from, not only improves your work in the present, but gives you a chance of influencing the future and links you to the best work of the past. It gives you a place to take a solid stand.

Believe me there are few things deader or more obsolescent than a science fiction novel that predicts the future when the future has passed it by.

The Dark Age world had all kinds of potential issues that might bother Anita Atkinson: climate crisis, state collapse, financial ruin, mass extinction, catastrophic population dieback. None of those things bothered Anita, though, because she didn’t understand long words.