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is to do basic
science: that is, to do stuff and observe the outcome. That's what I'm
doing here. The thing to remember is that the very *worst* thing you
can do to me as an artist is to not read my work -- to let it languish in
obscurity and disappear from posterity. Most of the fiction I grew up on
is out-of-print, and this is doubly true for the short stories. Losing a
couple bucks to people who would have bought the book save for the
availability of the free electronic text is no big deal, at least when
compared to the horror that is being irrelevant and unread. And luckily
for me, it appears that giving away the text for free gets me more
paying customers than it loses me.
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