Society is stagnant because those smart enough to develop new technology, medicine, and literature have been permanently handicapped, exiled, or killed. ... While there are elements of science fiction in his stories, he is more clearly a fantasist "one who creates a believable but purely imaginary world such as one finds in Lewis Carroll's, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). ...

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