Well then let me blithely and airily rejoin....

First, your interpretations of others statements tend to be extremely rigid, but you seem to wish your own statements to be graced by a certain lenient interpretation.

At it's heart, The War of the Worlds, is about the relationship between technology and man. From man's unthinking atrocities against all other life, to the eye-opening realization that we are not the final culmination of the evolutionary track... And then what happens when the tables turn and man is on the wrong side of the telescope... the wrong end of the food chain.

And yes, that ending that has to do with science, you know, the one you don't want to give away--is set up on the very first page, bringing the entire science fiction novella full circle.

BTW Did you figure out who determines which practioners can define the craft... or are we going to blithely and airly let that go?

kalonart.com