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|By setting stories on other planets or using other races, the author is often holding a mirror up to our society or to human psychology. What is Murphy saying about society in “His Vegetable Wife”?

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|Science fiction stories often have to deliver a lot of information to the reader, but don't want to deliver it in a tedious way (i.e. as a dry lecture). Describe and illustrate the techniques used to do this in two of the assigned readings.