The next story the student turns in does have dinosaurs in it, but it’s a piece of fluff. Swanwick shakes his head. “It needed more sodomy,” he says.
The student is flummoxed, and protests that he’s just trying to put into practice what he’d been told. Swanwick explains, to him and to the rest of the students, that writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.
I think that’s a good rule of thumb for life in general.
Jeff, you just yanked the stegasorus dong out of my… Well… You get the idea…
Whoops! Misspelled Stegosaurus…
That. Is. Hilarious.
I love sci-fi geeks.