There are some that even beg for the Chamber,” she could hear Isaar saying in the back of her mind. “Soft minded fools or broken souls that would rather live a fabricated existence than deal...

Here’s a thought. You answer what I ask and I keep not killing you.” – Antiope Flint – DREAMNASIUM

She’s qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.

Guns are not the problem. The species is the problem.

– No SF novel ever won the Booker, growls a prowling clansman on his way into the SF Café.The librarian swings a shotgun from inside her longcoat, blasts the bullshit axiom from the air. Screw...

Conceited little mega-puppy.

… crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.

Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.

You people do not have to live like this!” the man pleaded. “We are humans, made in the image of God. No machine has the right to order us around.” The man reached inside his...

I did say I came to rescue you. They were in my way.

How delusional are you, aliens in your head notwithstanding?

Perhaps friendship doesn’t divert sound judgment.

In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.

I have been to the speed of God, sir…and I discommend it.

There’s a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

She waits for his reprimand or words of disapproval.He kisses her instead. Hard. Lips demanding, fingers tightening on her chin. He consumes her with this single act.

It’s–my God–like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.

It is an extravagant gesture,’ she said, turning to the torpedo, ‘which is just the sort of gesture I like.

It’s a violent galaxy filled with cutthroat pirates, cyber-mercenaries and star messiahs. If peace comes, it will have to steal in like a thief.

It was all I could do to keep from lunging across the table and pressing my shuttering lips against his burning flesh. My palms were sweating profusely causing me to have to wipe them against...

A person is what he says and does; that’s how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.

For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s...

Step up to red alert.”Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb.” – Rimmer & Kryten, “Red Dwarf

Sometimes you gotta say what’s in your heart… And you have to stand for what you believe. No matter what.” ~’Dr. Michael C. Anders,

I couldn’t help but notice how hot he looked tonight with his strong build lining his t-shirt. He should never cover his beauty with clothes and such things. – Ariel

I’ve always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11

I guess I’m just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and...

Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, “the love of nature” seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has...

I’ll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

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

But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being – in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life – is happier than us?

I knew what made you tick from the moment we first met. That’s why I punched you between the legs.”~ #1001 & Caleb

..the happy hum of humanity.

Not all the magic of earth is benevolent.

Resistance, however, is useless. (1939)

Veil wouldn’t make his military invincible, but it would render every other military indefensible. Veil was it. Game over, fuckholes.

The Emperor, you see, protects… He protects mankind, through the Legions, through the Martial corps, through the war machines of the Mechanicum. He understands the dangers. The inconsistencies. He uses you, and all the instruments...

It’s amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.

These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which,...

Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You’re going to shoot down a fucking starship. It’ll be an experience.

Dale’s face is older. Just a little. Around the eyes and mouth. The skin of his neck. The back of his hands. Maybe not, he thinks, turning on the faucet, letting the water grow warm...

Mother Nature is a bitch.

In other words – and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation’s Galaxywide success is founded – their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.

Or destroy.

If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy. A book with swords and horses in it can be turned into science...

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

Time slowed as metal shards enveloped her like shattered glass. None pierced her of course, but it seemed as though she might be able to reach out and pluck one from the sky.She settled for...

He swallowed hard, annoyed at the sudden dryness in his throat. No reason to become all emotional about it now. He had already sold his soul for a chance at vengeance, and there was no...

Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.