You will never be able to push a button and kill people. You will not avoid the horrors. War must be so terrible that people will do almost anything to avoid it. It must be the last resort and in this...
Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".
We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.
The beauty of a thought is true science fiction.
Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.
Changelessness is decay.A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse.Changelessness is a change for the worse
Draden stepped back and saluted his friend and commanding officer. [...] Its been an honor to serve with you, sir. Their GhostWalker unit didnt stand on formality as a rule.[...]He felt it was importa...
Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact stride away across the Raman plain, totally indifferent to his presence.
Hate's not functional; why are we taught it?
He preferred smaller knives, but when you wanted to make a statement, you did it big. He wanted this man cowed and willing to talk.
He was aware that in thus relegating to irrelity a major portion of the only reality, the only existence, that he in fact did have, he was running exactly the same risk the insane mind runs: the losso...
Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....
I go on writing in both respectable and despised genres because I respect them all, rejoice in their differences, and reject only the prejudice and ignorance that dismisses any book, unread, as not wo...
I'm trying to decide if I'm having hallucinations and you're really an angel--or witch. Either one, I can't tell yet.
It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it...
The kid is scary.
They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.
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