War and Space: Recent Combat

I would spend whole weeks trying to untangle the lush foliage of bribes, kickbacks, nepotism, pride, religion, and mañana that is business in South America.

The real thing—that’s not what you want in the theater. Illusion, magic, imagination. What should have happened, not what did. Reality doesn’t make good theater.

Serious thinkers pointed out that humankind was scarcely ready to colonize the stars, having solved none of its problems at home.