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The knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility.Jo Walton
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In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character. In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world.Jo Walton
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What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?Jo Walton
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What's real within the story is real within the storyJo Walton