Publishers told him they are interested in science fiction that touches on negative utopias because they don’t sell. King dumped his book in the trash bin, but his wife picked it up, read it, and asked him to resubmit, which gave King his first book deal. Do you know that Michael ...
to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole…I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….”