There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you...
The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to...
The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor had they been since he had made the error of looking into...
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely small.
So this is it, said Arthur, We are going to die.Yes, said Ford, except... no! Wait a minute! He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. What's this switch? he c...
Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink.
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that...
I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and MegRon stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.
I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.
Exactly! said Deep Thought. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.
Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending destruction of the planet Earth and had made attempts to alert mankind to the danger; but most of their communications were misinterprete...
An international power supply is the device which means it doesn't matter what country you're in, or even if you know what country you're in (more of a problem than you might suspect) - you just plug...
Slartibartfast's study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I...
Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might h...