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.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth," the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.
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...
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!
[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...
Sometimes in my tent, last at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping, against the sky.
To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.
And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.
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.
He spent the afternoon alone in the streets.
You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.
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...
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...
Good science fiction starts with a question "what if...?
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...
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.