I read what you're saying as, “If we take a message and express it as a fairytale, more people can grasp the essence of it without being distracted by human characters and motivations.” Well, this may be true, but I think it also allows the author to hide problems, gloss over discrepancies, and reduce the messy complexities of reality to simple statements of belief or dogma.

As someone who cried his way through The Gulag Archipelago, I have to say, I found even that dry and academic telling, far more moving than Animal Farm.

In the end, it depends on the audience and the quality of the writer. I'm pretty sure Orwell reached readers with Animal Farm would would never have heard the message if it had been told in any other way. I'm pretty sure it remains in the public mind because Orwell was such a brilliant writer.

I see a great danger in playing around with reality. I think the world would generally be better off if people would see it as it really is, not sugar-coated, not simplified, not glamourised with magical beings, and not bent to the writer's agenda. I'm not saying (too loudly) that Orwell wrote propaganda, but that kind of fairytale presentation has to make you ask why the author chose such a format.

So, if you do write your own manifesto, don't forget to publish it

All I'm saying is that I aspire to write SF that fits my constraints because that is the kind of work I would be really proud to produce.

It is the SF author's task not to use only things that are or could be real, but to use the chosen subject matter in such way that it becomes believable, while not violating any existing laws of science, within the parameters of the world.

The 'what is real or could be real' matra is exactly what I've been agitating against in Science Fiction writing, because it narrows the field to exclude works that are, or should be, SF, that are not fantasy, that are speculative, but that contain material that is clearly impossible. Why do SF writers have to be so divisive? SF can include anything from hard SF to 'futuristic fantasy'.

I offer the Miles Vorkosigan books as a point of discussion.