The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93 million miles in radius - one Earth orbit - around the sun. If we have the mass of Jupiter to work...
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
Each nugget of information was fascinating. The world was full of new-found marvels and he wanted to share the excitement with everybody. They all did. They had a certain sense. It wasn't a sense of e...
There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every...
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
Never fire a laser at a mirror.
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
Fear is the brother of hate.
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. - Robert A. Heinlein
One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
Dune; Nova; Double Star; The Corridors of Time; Cat's Cradle; Half Past Human; Murder in Retrospect; Gideon's Day; The Red Right Hand; The Trojan Hearse; A Deadly Shade of Gold; Conjure Wife; Rosemary...