Clara Oswald: This is just a dream, but very clever people can hear dreams. So please, just listen. I know you're afraid, but being afraid is all right, because didn't anybody ever tell you fear is a...
Science is the desperate effort to catch up with the 13.8 billion year-old facts (give or take an eon or two).
In 's ... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a satellite named Triton... It was from that I first learned there was a Mato Grosso area in the Amazon basin. It was fr...
If you don't understand, I'll stay with you until you do.
He had never trusted a woman-or anyone, for that matter-to sleep close to him, let alone in the same bed. And yet, already, he was completely relaxed with her. He couldn't imagine being without her, a...
But when there's no hope to be found anywhere, even the tiniest chance is worth taking.
Science is about the desperate effort to catch up with the 13.7 billion year-old facts (give or take an eon or two).
I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know also that by that partiality, that distancing from the shared experience, it will be new: a revela...
Nothing in life is fair except a witnessed duel.
The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought.
And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as...
...and now over to our foriegn allegory correspondant, Barv Tweezman." ~The Shielding of Mortimer Townes
Here's a thought. You answer what I ask and I keep not killing you." - Antiope Flint - DREAMNASIUM
So a scientist and an engineer are tossed into separate rooms, stocked with tools and parts, and told that they aren't allowed out until they've produced a working prototype for a radio receiver. Afte...
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how th...
Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. People used to say they like to read books about romance, true crime, comedy, horror or science fiction. But these days...
But it must be inconvenient to not be able to remember your name. I'll give you my last name, if you want.
That's how we should celebrate all birthdays... with an ass-kicking.
Is happiness found in the nest where there's no hardship? Or is it in the outer world with vast sky? When the time comes, what would you keep and what would you abandon?
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is esc...
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