After reading Windhaven by George Martin and Lisa Tuttle a while ago, I've still thinking about one aspect of it. It was admittedly more of a background facet of the plot/setting (which was interesting because it was kind of a biography, fable, and commentary all at once but anyway...), but it still played an important part in the narrative. Bracketing off that plot (to avoid unneeded synopsis) the idea is that we often forget about the dynamics of other kinds of matter besides the solid kind, because we can't influence them directly. But what if you stop in the middle of, say, the UA mall with all the palm trees whipping around in the breeze, and look up? In the atmosphere, there are jet streams, updrafts, downdrafts, clouds being sailed in different directions, &c; hell, just look at a bird and try to imagine being able to move and use something you can't even see. Imagine if you could look up and see all those things happening in some way - it would dwarf the mountains, and be moving all at the same time. Same with water, of course. I dunno, I think it's kind of trippy - I mean, figuratively, that is (that, or maybe the new headache medicine is getting to me...)

+ sounds a bit uppity but seems to make sense: "We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution."

+ "The fastest draw is when the sword never leaves the scabbard."