We lifted up and then bobbed.”Back! Pull it back!” (Christopher)”It’s hard.” (Kitty)”The ground is harder!” (Christopher)

Welcome to your new bodies, gentlemen. If you’d like, I can help you start your owm ‘dysmorphia is all in your head’ support group.-Doctor Bunnigus

It was unhealthy to get too attached. Such things were best reserved for people who had a life expectancy

The cybernetic operation?””No, the sex change.”The doctor’s smile faltered.”I’m joking.

No, that’s easy, too. I just choose not to practice it.

If the other person says “Fuck Off,” well, then, deal. Move on.

You’d be surprised what I can do with a butter knife.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

His hand snapped shut over the device and then he crossed his arms. Aria stared in horror. Her Smarteye was buried in a Neanderthal’s armpit.

But the Butlerians turn fear into violence and panic into a weapon. By creating imaginary problems and raising the specter of nonexistent enemies, they transform common people into a wild herd that destroys everything they...

He turned to Matt and gave a huge smile, one hand on her withers. James reached out and pulled Matt to him, and they stood there in a little circle. It felt disconcertingly like… a...

I could not help feeling that they were evil things– mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal...

Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of ‘competition’…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn’t have...

Blacker than the night, the wedge penetrated the darkness. An F 117 raced by, the roar from its engines screaming through the interior of the chopper, and then it sliced away a piece of sky...

I can almost see the processes whirrling clunkily in his singularix, as his excited nervous system battled with his logic circuits.

Never been here before. It’s like something on the top floor of a luxury high-rise casino in Atlantic City, where they put semi-retarded adults from South Philly after they’ve blundered into the mega jackpot” Hiro...

There are moments in time when the axis of the universe shifts, when life as you knew it is irrevocably altered. When the hiss and grind of the gears fell silent, some deeply rooted instinctive...

‘Foo Kyu’ is just a very unfortunate cultural coincidence.””Just think about his poor son, ‘Foo Kyu Two.’

Brahman and I are buddies.

What is love of one’s country; is it hate of one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That’s a good thing, but one musn’t make a virtue of it, or...

Death whispers your name to me.

I sort of liked the sound of bones breaking. It was like home.

For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at … you know, that stuff we like.

Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning… because the day you do, you will also stop maturing.

The mistakes we make when we are young are just as important to us as food or air. Without learning how to do things the wrong way, we can never learn how to do them...

But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn’t want to ruin her for other men. – Dean

This much I know already: When Tommy and the Big Brains, in whispered, wry asides, talk about Project 88715, they call it something else. They call it the “Adam Project.

I told you stupid sons of bitches that this was going to happen!

Great job, you just executed Ben Franklin! – Otto Ray

If you’ve never been in a dumpster coated with industrial waste while someone stabs you with a piece of sharpened rebar, then you probably wouldn’t understand.

I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either...

I maintain that cultural sensitivity should be replaced by cultural awareness. Awareness implies research, consideration, thought, and judiciousness….Sensitivity denies equal access to language. It segregates and censors based on the background of the writer rather...

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.

She’s got you there,” HARV added.

BLUE, THE colour of the sky, of the ocean, of certain stars and planets and the hue of the bluest eyes you have ever seen.

I’m a wanted fugitive, and you’re an upstanding bachelor of the year!

What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.

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...

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...