Fiction is a dream. Science fiction most of all. You can analyze the purpose monster that's been chasing yu, consider its branch on the evolutionary tree.

Lie

"A lie will go round the world while truth is putting its pants on." Well, that was true once. Nowadays,

a lie will go to the edge of the solar system, return to earth, have sex with truth's wife and write

insulting things on truth's forehead with a Sharpie while the truth is still asleep in bed.