It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character.""I don't even know what that is!""Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
The ultimate downfall of the computerized holographic receptionist was that there was no amount of flattery, flirtation or chocolate that could convince one to lie for you.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Wit had conquered science by laughing it out of court.
Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prat...
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible
Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope.
My brother Keith begged to go with us as usual. He'll turn thirteen in a few days - August 14 - and the thought of waiting two more years until he's 15 must seem impossible to him. I understand. Waiti...
A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over worldbuilding.
The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based! If you can't fi...
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
Resistance, however, is useless. (1939)
I focus all my energy into become a faster, stronger, and better version of myself.
Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!
I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus; unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots.
Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeat...
Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.
F***ing triffids.
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