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00:00It's a wonderful way to think about possibilities.

00:05It's a wonderful way to explore exotic politics.

00:09It's a wonderful way, it's a freedom.

00:11It's a way of doing anything you want.

00:14There are all sorts of walls around other genres.

00:18Romances, mysteries, westerns.

00:21There are no real walls around science fiction.

00:24We can build them, but they're not their natural life.

00:28Hustle on over here.

00:30When I was 12, I saw a terrible movie called Devil Girl from Mars.

00:35One of those sad 1950s movies.

00:39The Martians had for some reason lost all their men,

00:42so they'd come to Earth to get some more.

00:45And for some reason, in spite of the fact that the Martian women were beautiful,

00:48the Earth men didn't want to go.

00:50And I turned off the television and said to myself,

00:54I can write a better story than that.

00:57And from what I've heard, that's the way a great many people start writing.

01:00Just the idea that what they're seeing is so awful, they can do better.

01:04I sat down and began writing my first science fiction story,

01:08which also turned out to be my first patternist story.

01:16My patternists are people, a gathering of mutants, really.

01:22They're not extraterrestrial or anything.

01:24They're not gathered for any particularly good purpose.

01:26They're gathered because a rather odious character is lonely and very long-lived.

01:33So he breeds them.

01:35He also eats them, in a sense.

01:39I think, really, a lot of my early writing had to do with my own feelings of powerlessness.

01:45So I dealt often with power, with what it did to people,

01:50what they did with it when they got it.

01:52And what I do in the xenogenesis books is explain what that is.

01:56I have aliens who arrive and who are interested in us

02:01because they are natural genetic engineers.

02:04They are gene traders, as a matter of fact,

02:06but who tell us that we have this conflict within ourselves.

02:10All too often, our intelligence serves our hierarchical tendencies,

02:15so that we tend to one-up ourselves to death.

02:19And I have all this going on after a nuclear war,

02:22when we really have one-upped ourselves to death.

02:41Most of the world, from what little we know of it today,

02:44is scarred with strips of impassable land.

02:47The sea is run through with deadly currents.

02:50Toramon may be the only fragment that can hold life, for all we are sure of.

02:57Once man flew to the moon, even to the moving lights in the sky.

03:01There were many empires.

03:03Often they fought with one another, and that was called a war.

03:08This notion that war is something that makes the whole society pull together,

03:12war is something that turns boys into men,

03:15and that was a view of war that science fiction writers,

03:19such as Heinlein and Poole Anderson, were very much enamored of.

03:24And when I looked around at what was happening to the people

03:28that you saw coming back from Vietnam, or going off to fight in Vietnam,

03:32this isn't what I saw.

03:34A small bead of light dropped from one of the airships.

03:38For five seconds, a sound came on, a concussive rumbling.

03:42The broken stud of burning masonry, the remains of the tower,

03:45flickered above the hem of buildings.

03:47Chaos roiled on the concourse.

03:49The newsspeaker grill began humming.

03:51Remain calm, citizens, remain calm.

03:53It behooves the writer to realize that certain kinds of questions

03:57are going to be asked, like who wins?

Black Sci-Fi | movie | 1992 | Official Clip

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