Now have video cameras in cop cars.

All these shows -- Cameras on Cops is big-time show-biz... Already in the science fiction world
where there's an Ultraviolence Channel. Not quite yet... but Ch. 21, 27 or 33, in the evening,
you'll get one of the cop or rescue shows, which means the video camera strapped to the helmet
-- And, "Go on in there after 'em boys", kicking doors down, hauling drug dealers out of bed,
and breaking up poebucker family fights, and all that... they're working on that sci fi
ultraviolence channel. I've been reading too many science fiction books. I've read 4 or 5 in a
row now that were written about 5 or 10 years ago and are supposed to depict NOW, the 1990s...
and the horrible thing is, they DO depict NOW. And they're supposed to be SCARY!! I end up
saying to myself, "Yeah, well, I know this is supposed to be a dystopian science fiction warning
about the perils to come if we continue... and we DID continue, and now we're right in the
middle of those perils to come. There IS a terrible ecological or human disaster on the news
EVERY DAY... SEVERAL every day. And thousands of new laws designed to cramp your personal
freedoms bit by bit so you don't even notice when they're all gone... it's current events but
it's SUPPOSED to be terrifying sci fi! Dobbs as a hobby writes sci-fi about the near future...
does that mean the abssurd baloney he comes up with, thinking, "Ah, this is so funny and
satirical but grisly and scary at the same time, ha ha ha..." MAN...?

What if the Yacatisma DO get here before the XISTS??

Like in THX 1138 and Clockwork Orange and World of the Future.

The reader is supposed to react with disgust and dread. And instead you just kind of go, "Hmmm..
well, gosh, he was right. Funny, now that it's all happening it just seems kind of... NORMAL".
END OF THE WORLD NEWS by Anthony Burges and also THE WANTING SEED by him... Children of the
Thunder by John Brunner... and also his Stand on Zanzibar and The Sheep Look Up... What else,
Nature's End by Whitley Streiber... and War Day by him...

And we're USED to 'em when they're all gone... it comes off as boring, or at best a
tachno-thriller sort of setting, of awful things that JUST MIGHT POSSIBLY COME TRUE were the
human race STUPID enough to LET them even after reading THOSE sci-fi books!! future... does
that mean the ab