Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
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Is this a horrible future Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past Think of old villages. Everybody knew everything about everybody else. Strangers were intimidating and worrisome. This will be like the village our ancestors grew up in, only with 7 billion people.
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