Moon-Watcher and his companions had no recollection of what they had seen, after the crystal had ceased to cast its hypnotic spell over their minds and to experiment with their bodies. The next day, a...
Jealousy is a terrible thing. It doth mock the meat it feeds upon is an understatement. Jealousy is completely consuming, totally irrational, and absolutely debilitating. The most wonderful people in...
If we both believe that we have nothing to learn from the other, is it not obvious that we will both be wrong?
If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized.
How I envy them, said Colonel Jones. Sometimes it’s quite a relief to have something trivial to worry about.
Historically, both fear and public opinion were notoriously unconcerned about morality.
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-bestscience writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fictionwriter.[dedication to Isaac Asimov from Arthur C. Clarke i...
Throbbed into silence… And that’s the way it was—goodbye, wonderful and terrible Twentieth
Forty-one was a very special number, the initial integer in the longest continuous string of quadratic primes.
Dying in an exciting situation is much better than living in a boring one.
Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.
Work is the best remedy for any shock,
Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
This touch of luxury was typical of the Base, though it was sometimes hard to explain its necessity to the folk back on Earth. Every man and woman in Clavius had cost a hundred thousand dollars in tra...
There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
The eruption had hurled the thing out of its normal environment, deep down in the flaming atmosphere of the sun. It was a miracle that it had survived its journey through space; already it must be dyi...
The Lassans were insatiably inquisitive, and the concept of privacy was almost unknown to them. A Please Do Not Disturb sign was often regarded as a personal challenge, which led to interesting compli...
Ten kilometers away, the lights of New York glowed on the skyline like a dawn frozen in the act of breaking.