The late Polish sci-fi author Stanisław Lem, in one of his two hyper-dense non-fiction books Fiction and Futurology, blasted Asimov for wasting his talent on silly nonsensical stories. What he saw as example of a flight of fancy without internal logic was the short story Strikebreaker, which is set in a closed community absolutely dependent on sewage treatment, but the man operating it is despised by everyone all the same. Lem thought it was silly to assume that people holding such an important job would be at the bottom of society. I thought Lem was showing a rare bout of naivity.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}