In Search of a Better Way to Write the World

One of my favourite Isaac Asimov stories is lesser known, but amusing to recall whenever I see my genres fall over themselves fretting about “politics in art”. (It’s always been there, and always will be.) In “S As In Zebantinsky” (Ballantine Star Science Fiction, January 1958; later published as “Spell My Name with an S”), Asimov imagines a butterfly e…