I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no ru...
Twice the size of a full grown man, with four muscular arms, it was his worst nightmare on steroids. -The Hyperscape Project
I dug through my purse for the Glock. There is was, and I realized I'd never set the safety. I decided to consider this a great example of forethought rather than my being the stupidest gun handler on...
Just my luck: My bloodthirsty killing machine was better with both kids and women than I was.
Hobey-Ho, let's go.
I maintain that cultural sensitivity should be replaced by cultural awareness. Awareness implies research, consideration, thought, and judiciousness....Sensitivity denies equal access to language. It...
We're not obsessed by anything, you see, insisted Ford....And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.I care about lots of things, said Slartibartfast...
In the beginning, Scripture taught, there was the Word, and Danny would come to believe that the two great gifts his God had given to the species He loved were time, which divides experience, and lang...
Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind.
Anything which is physically possible can be made financially possible, if the people of a state desire it.
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They have nothing to give. They have no power of making. All their power is to darken and destroy. They cannot leave this place; they are this place; and it should be left to them. They should not be...
I don't really know who I am , and I don't know when to stop, so if I see a great big threatening button that should never ever be touched I just want to do this!
Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?
Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird.
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which...
The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat
Never been here before. It's like something on the top floor of a luxury high-rise casino in Atlantic City, where they put semi-retarded adults from South Philly after they've blundered into the mega...
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffa...
He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.