You know what all the plutonium can buy me?" "Yeah it'll buy you one hell of a funeral!" Angel says angrily to man who was behind everything!
No power in the 'verse can stop me!
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
What's it like to be a living legend? A lot fucking better than being a dead one..." Geordie Selwyn, Appetite for Corruption
Clear skies, cousin". Good luck, he means. There are never clear skies on Avon, no blue, no stars. But we don't give up hope, and we use those words to remind ourselves. Clear skies will come, one day...
Compulsion: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) to force someone to do something or create an irresistible urge to behave in a certain way
Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.
Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.
I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93 million miles in radius - one Earth orbit - around the sun. If we have the mass of Jupiter to work...
I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.
Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomorrow
You mean old books?Stories written before space travel but about space travel.How could there have been stories about space travel before --The writers, Pris said, made it up.
F***ing triffids.
Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.
Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future.
Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is rea...
Science is the desperate effort to catch up with the 13.8 billion year-old facts (give or take an eon or two).
Science fiction has no ceiling.
The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in...
Don't go getting offended my friend, I have much worse things to say to you.-Ad'Dam, Journey from Atremes