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“To
the givers of this beautiful reward, my thanks, from the heart. My family, my
agents, my editors, know that my being here is their doing as well as my own,
and that the beautiful reward is theirs as much as mine. And I rejoice in
accepting it for, and sharing it with, all the writers who’ve been excluded
from literature for so long — my fellow authors of fantasy and science fiction,
writers of the imagination, who for fifty years have watched the beautiful
rewards go to the so-called realists.
Hard times
are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see
alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and
its obsessive technologies to other ways of being,
