Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.