There is a certain kind of thing that I picked up from Faulkner, and that’s the business of delayed revelation.
“Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be — a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they — and all of us — have to be able to think about a world that works differently.”
Samuel R. Delany