Tuesday, August 12, 2014

The House Without Books

Science Fiction saved him
as a young boy
in a house lacking books.

Books were the answer
to so many questions
and a portal to wonder.

What is special about science
he thought?
Perhaps the search for truth.

Asimov drew him in to
Galactic empires but
really it was the Roman Empire.

History.

Robert Heinlein took him to
strange people in strange lands,
and he learnt about free thought.

Individualism.

Thomas Disch taught him
about why we still
strive to achieve freedom.

Fascism.

Philip K. Dick showed him how
the world we see is not
the world in which we live.

Surrealism.

Robert Sheckley made him laugh
at the twisted possibilities
of multiple universes.

Theoretical physics.

By the age of 16 he was educated
but the world still had to catch up.

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