Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it’s vanity.

What If I still want to go?” “Then you’ll go,” he said. “But I wanted you to know the danger.” “There’s always danger.” His green eyes met mine. I was starting to see It, how...

I let the happy times slip through my fingers and gripped on to the sad times as if they were my heart’s desire

The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.

May the Force be with you.

You’re more mean-spirited than I remember you being.It’s this organic body. Hologram fur wasn’t itchy.-Admiral Breya Andreyasn & Petey

I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled “science fiction” … and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Gem thought it would be hilarious to shear his brother’s fine hair off while he was sleeping. Ever since then Menai decided he actually preferred the Mohawk. Both had inherited their mother’s Western Continent coloring,...

I smiled, reached into my pockets and pulled out a pair of ultrapowerful earplugs, the kind that are standard issue for skyway construction workers, artillery soldiers, and roadies for the thirty-five most popular teen boy...

I’m not sure sex qualifies as R and R, but it’s a compromise I can live with.

No one can win against kipple,” he said, “except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apartment I’ve sort of created a stasis between the pressure of kipple and nonkipple, for the time...

A place without meaning is no place to be.

He didn’t care if Matt made him cuddly or made him hornier than he’d ever been or even made him a lovesick fool. James was keeping him. Hopefully Matt would want to keep James too.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they’ll still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another’s fur. Anna had walked on a moon of Jupiter. She’d look up through a...

If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

Kate stops grinding the knife and begins to pass it over the length of the stone. Turning her wrist, she pulls the blade, swiping one side after the other, honing it to a fine edge....

I’d always known that when you went through one of these doors, you went to another planet, and that that other planet might be so far away, you couldn’t fly there in spaceship in a...

In calce all’ultimo capitolo del copione della Contessa era scritta la nostra prossima meta: la base di Sebastopoli, in Crimea, ora in mano ai tedeschi dopo la grande avanzata seguita al collasso della Russia. Lì...

Hello fake Everett children.

It was a well-known fact that keeping track of time was not Parry Pretty’s forte…If time were Parry’s pet, it would have died tied to a tree somewhere out back long ago.

You think that because I am unwanted, because I am neglected and-and discarded-“My voice inches higher with every word, the unrestrained emotions suddenly screaming through my lungs. “You think I don’t have a heart? You...

The obsession with correct political belief and expression in art is stultifying the genre as it is necessarily exclusive. We are losing our voice in artificial, forced homogeny posing as tolerance. Propaganda-disguised-as-story drives readers away...

At one time, we all were Gods.

One thing I have in abundance here are bags. They’re not much different than kitchen trash bags, though I’m sure they cost $50,000 because of NASA.

Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.

I really don’t know who I am, so I don’t know when to stop, so when I see a big threatening button that should never ever be touched, I just want to do this!

Ah yes, now you’re beginning to feel it. It’s so satisfying to see my best efforts coming to fruition. Undoubtedly one of the most gratifying rewards of my profession. It would warm my heart—if I...

Is it just me or is this like a bad TV sci-fi show?

Perhaps the god who had made the Cat People intended them as a joke. They had schools, but no education; politicians but no government; people, but no personal integrity; faces, but no concept of face....

Well, I can’t prove it, but, yes, I am leaning that way.

If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.

I loved him, but he didn’t want me anymore.I suffered, and he laughed at my umanity.This desire will be my end.

Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.

All those years of lurid magazine covers showing extremely nubile females being menaced in three distinct colors by assorted monstrosities; those horror movies, those invasion-from-outer-space novels, those Sunday supplement fright splashes—all those sturdy psychological ruts...

I don’t want to die without telling you that I love you,” Everett’s voice was a faint, wavering whisper, and his lips swollen and bloodied. “I always have.

Lo sfrigolio delle foglie di una vecchia quercia riempiva il silenzio che galleggiava intorno. L’odore dell’erba saturava le narici fin quasi a inebriare la mente. Il corpo giaceva rilassato alla frescura dell’austero tronco, immerso nell’aria...

His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She’d never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be...

I’m the terrorist, do what I say or I’ll terrorize you.

Yes, but none of them can steal my ship.None of them are smart enough to know that it was the right thing to do at the time.-Captain Tagon & Ennesby

The signs shifted in my mind like a kaleidoscope of visions.

it was the hardest frost recorded since 1786.” It is just the same with wars. The war in progress is either the most righteous or the bloodiest, or the most successful, or the longest, since...

Wrecked if I ever dash miners again! This is one royal who won’t wipe their boots on our cousins anymore.” His grin made the carnage seem trivial.

I believe that the door was unlocked.

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

Welcome to the Information Jungle.

It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs.

James had been acting a little weird. After waking up yesterday, he’d been a little bit distant. It might just be the stress of the trip. It was probably hard on James to be in...

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history