So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notion...
The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races.
Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.
I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
illustration Speaking before the Marion Hobby Club Marion, OH 2013 This writer is looking for an agent.An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it....
No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error. At sixty-eight, I hope I've gained some wisdom in the past fourteen lustrums and it’s oblig...
If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.
I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.
Quote from Frontiers:"Regardless of what happened, it was definitely going to be an exciting time for everyone, the day humanity first reached out to touch the stars.
Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.
Changelessness is decay.A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse.Changelessness is a change for the worse
Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.
Fiction is the evidence that reality exists
Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant nothing would. No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add...
Sci-fi doesn't show me much about alien's nature but shows a lot about North American nature.
Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it...
The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.
England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.
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