A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.
You're a miracle, woman. Draden meant it.
She didn't want any contact with Whitney at all. He was the boogeyman. He'd held absolute authority over her for her entire life. Defying him was difficult. It said a lot that Shylah was willing to di...
Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.
Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....
He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.
My relative examined you, observed a few of your normal body cells, compared them with what it had learned from other humans most like you, and said that you had not only a cancer, but a talent for ca...
By the standards of a tourist strolling past looking for a quick lunch, the place was a dive. The sign on the window was small and easy to miss, and the antique feel of the place wasn't the prepackage...
When I began to do a little public speaking, one of the questions I heard most often was, "What good is science fiction to Black people?" I was usually asked this by a Black person...What good is scie...
In case you haven't noticed, they're moving a lot faster. I don't know about the laws of physics on your planet, but where I come from an object moving at subclass speed can't catch up to one running...
I can't go back, said Towser. Nor I, said Fowler. They would turn me back into a dog, said Towser. And me, said Fowler, back into a man.
Steampunk is Victorian science fiction
I get tired of hearing some science-fiction fans saying that characterization isn't important in SF. In point of fact, I think it's probably more important in SF than in mainstream fiction. After all,...
As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.
Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel.
May the gods ignore you.
Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable.She was thrilled to be back.
The t'ca [ship] left them, rolled and slewed off in a maneuver that made sense to a multi-brained snake.
Statistically it was not greatly different than it had been for previous generations, but anecdotally it had become so prominent that every problem was noticed and remarked. The cognitive error called...
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.