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Reading Ellison makes me want to write ✍🏽

Is a sleeper story in every sci-fiction author? If we write stories about mind control of our Universe why not always solipsism?

I'm not certain why the short story associated with this collection of stories by the author is as alien as it is. And by alien I mean, less pedestrian. why is everyone's so called favorite work difficult (intentionally difficult) to understand it's meaning? And I'm not talking metaphoric or in another language or other cultural morphing... it's weird; it's alien.

A Boy and His Dog — Set in a post-apocalyptic world (the Third World War is said to start in 1992) and it's a story about a boy whose age we never get to know (Vic) and his telephatic, speaking dog (Blood), both hungry and horny. It's very... rapey. And of course, again, in this story, the girl only serves as a device for the boy, without character.

Shattered Like a Glass Goblin ― Is this figurative or no? I cannot really 'get' this story. Is the protagonist truly a glass goblin? At first it sounds like someone joins a sharehouse full of junkie recluses who keep him in the house by tasking one of them (a woman, of course) with sleeping with him as his 'rewards' until he wants out OUT and then suddenly I'm not sure anymore

Worlds to Kill — Last man standing-ish human mercenary who destroy worlds and planets or whatever for a price, supported by his AI-like system that decides he needs someone (a woman, of course) to live with and gift him children so he's... I don't know, live longer? More motivated to continue living? (I don't like this perspective of making women a 'device' for men)

S.R.O ― Spaceship appears on Broadway and aliens begin performing for the people watching below, some millionaire-wannabe starts making money off popcorn and balcony/box seats... at least until the aliens decide they perform long enough and now it's time to eat?