She liked that little nod of approval he'd given her as if she were his equal just because she hadn't given into the hysteria welling up.
And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.
We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.
The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine.Reality doesn't offer this assurance, so it's very easy to develop...
Every day we are challenged by events, people and situations that are extremely frustrating and anger producing.
We got places to go, people to meet, and things to blow up!That needs to be cross-stiched on a pillow
You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.
As for you Rose Tyler you gave up on me! That's rude. Is all I am rude and not ginger?" The Doctor
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they're always ideas that work themselves out and become...
We came back [from Mars], Pris said, because nobody should have to live there. It wasn't conceived for habitation, at least not within the last billion years. It's so old. You feel it in the stones, t...
Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step.
Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a science fiction novel emerges from the cosmic mix.
A minute later the steam stopped. By then, I was soaking wet and, no doubt, my pores were open. Some people pay a fortune for this kind of beauty treatment. I got mine for free, if you disregard the b...
[H.G. Wells said] that his method was "to trick his reader into an unwary concession to some plausible assumption and get on with his story while the illusion holds." Such prestidigitation is a charac...
To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.
On this ship, my word is fucking law! Captain Josiah Trenchard. UWSS Might of Fortitude.
...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and enjoy it; joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fi...
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.
A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.
Lampaxa Vorheridine? My Latin was never very good. What does that Translate to?" "Um, nothing. It wasn't named by an Earth scientist. According to the database it was named by a Cheblookan aboard a f...