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...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Let the Hunger Games Begin!

Science fiction is the one literature that deals with today’s reality – that provides a basis for discussion and understanding of the complex events of our time. It opens the doors for students – doors...

There are only a few planets with life. It is an oddity. It is really difficult to have the necessary conditions not only to support life but also to maintain the life inside a planet.-Loto

As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that reading—retellings of the old stories (Mallory, White, Briggs), anecdotal collections and historical investigations...

I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.I am descended from you, and exist in your future.Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.

Change happens very slow and very sudden.

And [Asimov]’ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people’s books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a...

What’s more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones?

–It’s not Sci-Fi, we insist, It’s SF.Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know.

loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

No doubt you’ve experienced something similar in books, movies, novels–whatever you use as an excuse to get away, to suspend reality. Literary characters, like these projections, draw you in and cultivate feelings of friendship on...

It’s Halloween, you can tell everyone you’re going as your favorite Steampunck character.””I don’t even know what that is!””Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction.

Thomas jabbed a thumb over his shoulder and raised his eyebrows.”You met our new friend?” Miho responded, a smirk flashing across his face. “Real piece of work, this guy. I gotta get me one of...

We won—this little conflict and a thousand like it—because we were destined to win. The universe will allow no other outcome.

Usually for the same reason you were unconscious, I think.

Reluctantly, we had already accepted every challenge at the moment we were born. And as long as we live, we have no right to give up. For we, or at least someone very similar to...

The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science.” – Scientific Faith”Under the Thelián Sky: Beyond the Great Unknown” (c) 2012

I really, really need some help and advice. I’m scared… I’m scared of my own home, of my own daughter!

That’s what you people do, isn’t it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.

And it didn’t matter. It wouldn’t make a fucking difference if I dropped to the floor and started crying like a baby. No point in panicking. No point in breaking. No point in anything at...

Up to me. Great. I could hurt my mom and my sisters, or I could hurt my dad. Perfect. Isn’t divorce fun?

You’re beautiful. All of you.

Marla poked Duncan. He stepped forward. “Maybe I can help.”Atomic Jack looked at him., his eyes glowed a sickening shade of radioactive orange. “I really don’t see how.” He slipped off his glove and his...

You can dance. You can make me laugh.You’ve got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You’re a diplomat. You’ve got it all. Everybody loves you. You can charm the birds out of the sky,...

Fiction is dangerous because it lets you into other people’s heads. It shows you that the world doesn’t have to be like the one you live in.” At the first nationally recognized science fiction convention...

That’s what so many people didn’t understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake...

I am inclined to trust you. You shouldn’t be like that with another man, not ever; but I can’t help it. I felt it strongly from the instant I heard your voice; and though I...

They worried to an excessive degree about getting gender correct, as if elves gave a shit. Humans could keep their concerns about everyone’s genitalia to themselves.

I won’t pressure you, Ari, but I’m not opposed to subtle acts of persuasion.

Mistakes? That’s why they put erasers on pencils.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

In case you haven’t noticed, they’re moving a lot faster. I don’t know about the laws of physics on your planet, but where I come from an object moving at subclass speed can’t catch up...

If contemporary literary fiction doesn’t read a bit like science fiction then it’s probably not all that contemporary, is it

It kills me. The way he trusted. LIke the way we trusted before they came and blue the whole goddamned world apart. Trusted that when it got dark there would be light. Trusted that when...

Cattle… it called us cattle…We’re hamburger, you mean.

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

The only thing what happens in the Houses of Parliament is the debate about foxes, badgers and moles

I searched my mind for the right visualization. I knew it had to start with what I put in my head. That is where all my accomplishments are formed.

There’s no real objection to escapism, in the right places… We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape...

Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn’t found a reason to live by the end of the day she would jump from the rig. It felt good to have a plan.

Daisies are perennials; they always grow back.

Humans are capable of so much more. Power mongers like you have stripped away what is most valuable to us, the importance of our heritage and family values. We have been robbed of this, blinded...

It’s light, comfortable, not too tight, and you don’t sweat in it from the heat. You can go right through a fire in this thing, and no gas will penetrate it. It’s even bulletproof, they...

With him I couldn’t be anything but myself and that scared the crap out of me, because I had never existed like that before.

He takes two steps back. Closer to the portal.I can’t stop myself. “Ben,” I call. And I’m not even embarrassed about how helpless my voice sounds.Don’t go.”I’ll come back for you.” He takes another step...