Conquest is made from the ashes of one's enemies.
Magic is magic as long as humans can explain it logically!
Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as "See--no weapons"? But...
We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.
The gods demand entertainment. They demand trial and contest. We could not be allowed to defeat our own daemons, for that would be boring, and boredom is the only thing the eternals fear. We are being...
They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.
So. Our little pearl of warmth, our spinning orrery of lives, our island, our beloved solar system, our hearth and home, tight and burnished in the warmth of the sun—and then—these starships we are ma...
Reputation never has very much to do with reality. I could name half a dozen paragons of virtue that are horrible, small-souled, evil people. And some of the best men I know, you'd walk out of the roo...
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Imagine that every man’s mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be th...
I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me...
Everything in this world, as well as the world itself, strives for balance and harmony. Electron reaches proton, male tends to female, light replaces darkness, life is balanced by death, and vice vers...
Sci-fi doesn't show me much about alien's nature but shows a lot about North American nature.
No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.
Conceited little mega-puppy.
Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and pr...
Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.
When the emergency brappers went of they did what any dedicated, well-trained and quick-minded Service personnel would do; they paniced.From the short story What Makes Us Human.
Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.
Mr Baley, said Quemot, you can't treat human emotions as though they were built about a positronic brain.I'm not saying you can. Robotics is a deductive science and sociology an inductive one. But mat...