You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

Be Brave or Die

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?

Listen: Common sense doesn’t mean what it used to mean.”-Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN

Who knew that you would be The One,” I smile, “which I guess makes me your Trinity.””My Amidala.””Your Zira.””My Sylvia.””Your…” I scour my brain, trying to remember some other great sci-fi love interest.”Ha! I’m your...

Being a mercenary, though… Hey, we just go wherever there’s a mixture of money and trouble, and everyone in the galaxy is a potential customer.Even the people you’re paid to shoot at?Well, yeah. There are...

There comes a time when a man must forgo familiarity and venture into uncertainty; risking obscurity, but also quite possibly… finding meaning.

She pulls a spare head from beneath a pile of shoes and raises it by the hair. It looks like one of those cheap, blue heads that botwhores keep for lonely sci-fi freaks who want...

Let’s try to limit our use of stealth mode from now on,” I said.

Wesley Crusher: Say goodbye, Data. Lt. Cmdr. Data: Goodbye, Data. [crew laughs] Lt. Cmdr. Data: Was that funny? Wesley Crusher: [laughs] Lt. Cmdr. Data: Accessing. Ah! Burns and Allen, Roxy Theater, New York City, 1932....

My tears had unexpectedly become real.

This is a robbery. Sorry for the inconvenience’n’all but if you don’t line up out here at the count of five then I’m gonna get all trigger-happy on your ass. One, two…

Here’s the thing,” I said. “I’m not going to be the government’s bitch.

I guess I could drive myself crazy trying to figure out why he left me but I can’t, all I can do is move on, Parisa replied, the words came out smoother and easier than...

Kandinski looked up. ‘Do you read science fiction?’ he asked matter-of-factly.’Not as a rule,’ Ward admitted. When Kandinski said nothing he went on: ‘Perhaps I’m too skeptical, but I can’t take it too seriously.’Kandinski pulled...

His men had begun gathering the wounded or stunned into a small group some distance back up the slope. Here and there an animal or human stirred, but not many. There were few cries of...

People fear what they don’t understand.

Two minutes worth of signal analysis told me all I needed to know. This station “talks” to the dark matter universe about what goes on inside.How did you cobble together a jammer so quickly?I had...

Do you know why the lotus is one of my favorite flowers?” I cocked my head to one side so I could see his expression.He shook his head.”This beautiful flower lives in the most vile,...

We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn’t, why would there be so many of them? There’s something attractive about all those people being gone, about wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging cans of Campbell’s...

The bag is now clearly catless, and there’s a very foul odor coming from the fan.

Rejoice in the colours…

The death has an only color.

Your thoughts are transparent.

I’ve never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds and the beast rises from the pit—we will kill it.

I’m Catbug!

Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn’t it been clever? Yes, it had.

We’re not obsessed by anything, you see,” insisted Ford.”…””And that’s the deciding factor. We can’t win against obsession. They care, we don’t. They win.””I care about lots of things,” said Slartibartfast, his voice trembling partly...

A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s body and limbs, like ropes under his skin. Purplish bruises covered the kid,...

Are you saying that the Rebel Alliance were religious terrorists and Yoda was a benefit cheat?

This one sank deep into her marrow and made her heart soar like the shuttles piercing the stratosphere.

From her own life experience Keldaren knew that loveable hunks were in short supply anywhere in the galaxy, loveable hunks who knew her were an extinct species, and that more marketing companies than friends had...

I never take rides from strangers, thugs who’ve tried to kill me or people with poor personal hygiene. Congratulations, by the way, for being the first person to qualify in all three categories.

Quei due mondi erano specchi deformanti: si riflettevano a vicenda e gettavano luci e ombre l’uno sull’altro, come se s’interrogassero e ponessero in dubbio reciprocamente. L’illusione era così perfetta che dovevo ripetermi in continuazione che...

The king was pregnant.

Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.

Help!” he yelled and he lifted one leg, trying to run. But you can’t outrun the membrane — he was soon gone.

Prima di essere dimesso viene visitato da un dottore umano, non da qualche genere di robot paramedico, un tipo sbrigativo e cordiale. Lì per lì, quello imbastisce una piccola conferenza sulle microscopiche nano-macchine che scorrono...

It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.

I dug through my purse for the Glock. There is was, and I realized I’d never set the safety. I decided to consider this a great example of forethought rather than my being the stupidest...

Ennesby, get the Serial Peacemaker to the beach for dustoff.””Dustoff? You’re going to run away from three guys?””No, I’m going to kill or capture those three guys, and then run away from the Police.

Taking a chance on a new author, can open your mind to new experiences.

There are seven and a half billion people on this earth – somebody’s got to get sucked into a vortex.

I am writing your obituary. Well, not so much writing it as updating it,” HARV told me.If I lived, I was going to kill HARV.

Un vento gelido spazza il ballatoio che corre esternamente allo spazio-porto. Ne copre l’intera circonferenza e da lì, al riparo di un’immensa bolla di vetro, si può osservare la Terra.Fa un certo effetto a stare...

We’re more alike than you realize.

Great,” mumbles Kelly. “Bat stew cooked on a bat shit fire by an old bat.

The evolution of mind requires a diet of knowledge.

There are many other words I could think of to describe you but I’m not really good at flattery.

Piece of cake really – Enforcers, crazy psychopath dude with giant laser rail guns, throw in a few bounty hunters, a couple torture experts – sounds great, I really can’t wait can you?” Duv Jackson,...