“mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids/in fact it’s cold as hell and there’s no one there”

I’ve had this quote in my scratch file for a few years, waiting for me to find something to say about it. Except, I’ve got nothing that it doesn’t say itself, and better:

“Imaginative fiction trains people to be aware that there are other ways to do things, other ways to be; that there is not just one civilization, and it is good, and it is the way we have to be.” —Ursula K. Le Guin

---L.

Subject quote from Rocket Man, Elton John.