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The Art of Fiction No. 203

The Art of Fiction No. 203

By Ray Bradbury

Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

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At David Livingstone’s Statue

At David Livingstone’s Statue

By Cheswayo Mphanza

for Harry Mphanza We have changed a great many of our colonial place names since independence, but we have kept the name of Livingstone out of a deep respect. —Siloka Mukuni, chief of the Leya People   At the onset of my ingenious plan, the sun barely shone             through the mist.       I struggled with a name to identify the rushes             of water pouring beside me. Half of my tongue saying Mosi-oa-Tunya—   “the smoke that thunders.” The other saying Victoria Falls.       And h…

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