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...

His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living fire as they writhed and twisted in the light that blazed from the...

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with...

As a general rule, you won’t find the love of your life while you’re on your knees under a table.” — Helios Dayspring

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.

No, Sarah. There’s more. There’s always more. I won’t give you up. I won’t! It’s not just a game. Midgard is real for many people and it’s real for what they’ve experienced. It’s real. We...

The human brain has a natural ability, inherent in its mechanism, to work on many levels, in a process of constant promptings, in a type of self-preservation.If only humans understood…Most ignore it.

There are many places that are not made for staying,” Heckleck said. “They are too harsh, too hard, and too far away from whatever you call home. You don’t root where you don’t have to,...

Can’t I just say it’s magic? – Charlie Blue

Where is the world whose people don’t prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?

God exists. He has one wicked sense of humor, and right now he’s having a grand old time punking the planet.

To be touched with love was a kind of miracle.

How many roads must a man walk down?

… but remember that I shall love your sorrow…

Two there shall be; no more, no less. One to embody the dark side, the other to crave it.

Steampunk is Victorian science fiction

As the sky began to darken she sank down in the chair. She had just watched over a thousand Alliance soldiers die in the space of less than a minute. Yet the encounter would be...

Don’t let go.

Veins stood out in her temples as she struggled against her silence. No one noticed. Those words had already been used up, spent, thrown out into the atmosphere to dissipate without effect.

Evolve…or Die…

That year the Ribeiro’s daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place — but these suckers bit. That didn’t sound Earth-authentic to me. Not that I care,...

A leader’s first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

Quote from Frontiers:”Regardless of what happened, it was definitely going to be an exciting time for everyone, the day humanity first reached out to touch the stars.

I’m sorry,” he says. No two words were ever truer.Still, she says nothing. Once a shield, now her taciturnity is brandished like a blade, carving away his sanity. She’s the flaw in the paragon of...

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

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction

The world is only as small as your mind makes it.

Madness, and then illumination.

emergency escape routes” from reality. Romance novels dish out a banquet of Eye Candy. Otherworldly passion erupts when the two collide in an epic novel of unforgettable characters and dire circumstances.

Oareşce emoţii sunt de aşteptat de la un anticar c nd e luat pe sus, direct din pat, şi dus la Comandatură. Bine măcar că şoferul nici nu mă bagă în seamă, conduce maşina pe...

Wait awhile, and everything will change.”~’Griblich

This is more than an experience in the shadows of sleep.

Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and as a result. The mainstream hasn’t excluded SF; the mainstream...

The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction.

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… So I ask, in my writing, What is real?...

None were left now to unname, and yet how close I felt to them when I saw one of them swim or fly or trot or crawl across my way or over my skin, or...

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don’t have the technology

I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend.” ~ #1001

Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board ‘Mentor’. The so-called joy machines were banned on all planets, except under strict medical control; but there would always be...

I shot the first planet this afternoon.

We’re in America; why do I have to “Press 1” for English?

All of the things that were shown in early studies to be good for longevity—happy marriages, healthy bodies—are ours to have. We live long,good lives. We die on our eightieth birthdays, surrounded by our families,...

When the mind is free, magic happens.

Being alone does not make you crazy, it reminds you of who you are.

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...

Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be.”Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The Phoenix Shadow

Technos and clerics have much in common. Both take a world that can’t be fully understood and try to explain its fundamental properties. Clerics postulate beliefs that can never be proven; they demand you accept...

It’s impossible to walk through solid rock… You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.