I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.
I know, i know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the times I was f...
He wasn't worried about being alone. He was used to it. He'd been alone most of his life, even in the midst of a crowd. He could handle that, no problem.
He was such a mixture, tough as nails and lethal, but with her, unfailingly a gentleman, tender and sweet, looking out for her so carefully.
He wanted to believe in another life where he could have his woman for more than the short time it appeared they had left, but if he didn't ever get that, he would celebrate every second with her now.
We have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. ... The patient's biological brain is the peripheral terminal -- the only peripheral t...
She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.
Twice the size of a full grown man, with four muscular arms, it was his worst nightmare on steroids. -The Hyperscape Project
I'll show you my theory, if you show me yours.
I understand now that you cannot fight for a noble cause with heinous actions.
Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the process of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks. Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else which thinks at least as logically...
I have no objection to the expression of political opinions in SF if they are an integral part of the story structure. I don't at all appreciate their intrusion for the purpose of converting a story i...
A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.
Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy i...
Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.
To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.
This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: all your bank account are belong to us
The woman was sexy, lethal and very confident. The sound of her laughter was enticing. Intriguing. It played along his nerve endings and sent an electrical current running through his bloodstream. He...