The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
A species used to strict patterns of inherited hierarchy.
Where is it written that one should only care about big things?
The species greatest harvest words.
My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.
All facts are created equal.
Obviously they thought their Lord was giving the haughty tirbeswoman
Why is the future always … in the future?
The towering standing wave that composes the symphony of thought.
The village is coming back, like it or not.
In good times, pessimism is a luxury; but in bad times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling and fatal prophecy.
As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has not been forgiven for its crap. The reason is that science fiction inherently distrusts the 'eternal...
The radicals are right about that. Diversity is the key. But it need not be the same diversity as existed before mankind. Indeed, it cannot be the same. We are in a time of changes. Species will pass...
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to...
How can we set up a system which encourages individuals to strive and excel, and yet which shows some compassion to the weak, and weeds out madmen and tyrants?
The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don’t assign to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. And try not to assume your opponent is the ignorant one — until you can show it...
I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.
Responsibility was our cruel mooring....
Once you consider the premise that Episodes I through III are not live-action movies with extensive special effects, but rather animated features with a few living actors rotoscoped in, many of the mo...