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

Your demons are always with you,” Skale answered. His voice seemed even raspier than the day before. “Don’t you understand that by now? Always with you, impossible to escape. But you never can guess how...

How inappropriate to call this planet “Earth,” when it is clearly “Ocean.

I love him, and I love us together more than I love myself. I will do what you ask, but if,” Kara swallowed hard, “…if I lose him, I’ll join him in death.” Vena resisted...

They were more than partners, more than brothers; they were very nearly the same person.

Uh, what?

By focusing on the interior of a speaker’s larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him....

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego...

Reaching out, I grab his hand and intertwine my fingers with his. And I move into his space until we’re not even an inch from each other. Laying my forehead on his chest, I take...

It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the...

What you mons making all the racket about? You wake me again and I’ll put the voodoo hex on you. All you only call me Tuberculosis behind my back now. You want the real thing?”...

She felt a soft brush of lips against her forehead, heard the other woman murmur, “Sleep now, chére.”Chére, Hannah though. Cherished. It was a good thing to be. She wrapped the word around her and...

Don’t Panic

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

You stumble upon an unhappy Martian sentry on a mission and shoot ineffectually at his powersuit a few times before he pulps you with his laserbeam eyes and hideous poisonous-gas breath. Glory!

The way I figure it, here in New Earth, men’s power has won out over women’s power, just like it’s done on Mainground. But men still fear women’s power. No one ever forgets their mother’s...

His whisper continued to stream a silent cacophony of warnings, kill and damage reports and pleas for assistance.He allowed himself two seconds to watch it and came away with the sense they were losing. Not...

When all else fails, use the pen.EMW

Who the hell are you?

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Yes, rules are made to be broken — but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.

That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody.

path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you’re going on it is only a story. Where you’ve been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant...

Death and his scythe do not come. No sweeping black capes or ethereal escapes. There’s no pearly gate, no prisms of colors as his soul slips away. The stillness is cold steel. The silence is...

Is the beauty of the Whole really enhanced by our agony? And is the Whole really beautiful? And what is beauty? Throughout all his existence man has been striving to hear the music of the...

I believe knowledge ought to be gained without a dollar amount added to it.

In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.

I knew at that point I was more than capable of loving Jack – I was meant to.

Colonel Graff: We won! That’s all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.

What?” The dread in her tone told Rob she knew what. “How much longer?””Thirty seconds.”She laughed with a panicked urgency. “I just tried to nod. I can’t feel my body, but I keep reaching for...

Well, it is generally considered— though not always true— that the wife of a man so honoured is likely also to be worthy of the honour, and so it is accorded her. In the event...

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon – that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.Neo: What truth?Spoon boy: There is no spoon.

Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.

Of course, if we do find the Great Glom, we will see other gloms as well,” said Dottia. “I mean, he will not exist alone, will he? Mythic creatures like him are often spoken of...

Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project’s idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy...

Was he leaving home, or going home?

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

How typical of a machine to think it knows better.

Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a science fiction novel emerges from the cosmic mix.

US Constitution is unconstitutional.” – The United States Supreme Court, 2079

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own...

We have to destroy the radioactive brain of Madame Curie.

Sometimes he’d dream of hunting for Adam the Usurper twenty years in the future, or of Doctor Simmons sending Aero to burrow into his head and steal his most secret thoughts and desires.

You could’ve at least let me know you weren’t dead by the way. I was actually kind of sad about that.” “That’s a pretty incredible sentiment, coming from you.

Normally, I don’t take to drinking so early in the morning, but I bend the rules when I get my ass kicked before sunrise.”–Thomas Morelli

Love?’ Echo was right. All destruction started from love, didn’t it?

So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they...

When I think of war, I see blood. Pain and suffering. Nothing good comes from war.But there is good. There will be an outcome. One side will find peace, solace. While the other will end...

the crescent sun is high, the moon low; life is not for the faint-hearted; so why the fuck should art be?