Science fiction is using an exploration of where we might be, to explore where it seems like we are heading, in order to reveal exactly where we are.
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation,...
What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine.
The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
He liked that she gave the questions thought. That she actually saw the mysteries and worked at solving them.
Draden was hers. The one. The only. She didn't know how she knew it, but she did know that nothing in her life was truer.
But what's in a name? We have named all of the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have names of their own. What a nerve!
science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.
A recent survey of 2,000 male graduates of Harvard Business Schoolfound that penis length & IQ were equally good predictors of annualincome. -- from "Eugene
There was a sense of comfort being wrapped up in his arms. He was calm in the middle of a terrifying experience. He was a rock she could cling to.
That fantasy mouth smiled. The kind of smile that could melt the panties off a nun. Holy Cow.
It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black e...
I'm not rejecting you. Just the opposite. You mean something huge to me. Huge. I can't think about much of anything else but keeping you alive.
I detested that people who already had everything they could possibly want would step on others who had nothing. Would use them and crush them. I'd lived my life mainly in the streets and found out th...
A part of him felt she would always have been a mystery to him, elusive and enigmatic, but at the same time, she was comfortable as if they had been together for years.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth," the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.
There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, t...
Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.
Degree of conformance to our other beliefs. One of our criteria for the assessment of explanations is coherence with our existing beliefs.
Whitney plants viruses in us to force us to return home. [...] I knew sooner or later I wouldn't return, and I'd die from whatever they put in me.