All that had gone before was not a thousandth of what was yet to come; the story of this star had barely begun.
Could we go into your room? she asked. I knew it. I knew it, he said, spinning around and sliding quickly toward his door. It's finally happend, just like in dreams. An intelligent, beautiful woman is...
Call it the Star Gate.
She was certain that it was wise to prevent Wilson and Brown from working closely together during sorties inside Rama. Nicole chastised herself for not having raised the issue with Borzov on her own....
Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate.
They had forgotten much, but they did not know it. They were as perfectly fitted to their environment as it was to them—for both had been designed together. What was beyond the walls of the city was n...
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.
A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
Where was the end of the story? Surely, the final stage would be reached when the audience forgot it was an audience, and became part of the action. To achieve this would involve stimulation of all th...
Men had sought beauty in many forms—in sequences of sound, in lines upon paper, in surfaces of stone, in the movements of the human body, in colours ranged through space.
Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
The next day the government of South Africa announced that full civil rights would be restored to the white minority.
Is there intelligent life on Earth? Yours,
It seemed to him that his ship was rather like a stranded whale that had managed a difficult birth in an alien element. He hoped that the new calf would survive.
Only Time is universal; Night and Day are merely quaint local customs found on those planets that tidal forces have not yet robbed of their rotation. But however far they travel from their native worl...
My God -- it's full of stars!-Dave Bowman.
I seem to be having difficulty—my first instructor was Dr. Chandra. He taught me to sing a song, it goes like this, ‘Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do. I’m half crazy all for the love of you.’ The
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.
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