All I see is my father’s tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.– Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH – A Calling)

The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it’s scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based! If you can’t find...

Masochism is more widespread than we realize because it takes an attenuated form. The basic dynamism is as follows: a human being sees something bad which is coming as inevitable. There is no way he...

On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drinnk between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate.

Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.

My first clue time travel could be possible was in the barber’s chair the day before my girlfriend’s funeral.

(…)Through the ship’s telescopes, he had watched the death of the solar system. With his own eyes, he had seen the volcanoes of Mars erupt for the first time in a billion years; Venus briefly...

The rulers were using ancient knowledge to manipulate the amygdaloidal primal fear. They ruled through fear, preternatural fear created through soft, invisible waves designed to alternate the brain’s almond. They kept the people spellbound

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: ‘There is change. Look, today’s fantastic story is tomorrow’s fact.

If you love someone, if someone loved you, if they taught you to write and made it so you could speak, how can you do nothing at all? You might as well take their words...

The only wand you’ll ever need is a better-feeling thought.

A mother is an individual who’d go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That’s the most horrifying individual you’ll ever meet.

Good science fiction starts with a question “what if…?

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

The truth is out there.

I’ve come to accept the voices in my head… I just wish they didn’t spit when they talk.

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept...

We’re getting out of this damned Zharfar,” he said as he stormed out.

I don’t know about you, but I find the idea of a school at night time – imagining the silent classrooms in total darkness and the playgrounds left lonesome and bare – creepily peculiar.

We walk in dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for the One. We die for the One. — the Ranger oath

No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days.

If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.

Ce te înnebunește nu vine din tine. Nici din mintea, nici din sufletul tău. Ce te înnebunește te înconjoară. Rigiditatea. O rigiditate care te apasă, te sufocă și te mistuie între cer și păm nt....

We do not stop. You all took the oath to come here. Hard work lies before us in breeding our new community. – Adrian

I learned as a kid that homo sapiens would rather fight other homo sapiens than microbes. For one thing, it’s easier. And there’s something satisfying about knowing somebody else is the bad guy and seeing...

People say, ‘Time heals all wounds.’ That may be true, but relocating to an alternate reality can sure help too.” -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1941

I believe you to be Filidor Vesh,” said the dwarf.”You are entitled to your beliefs, however ill-founded,” Filidor replied. “No doubt you will wish to search further for this Vesh, rather than impose your presence...

You are, what you do, when it counts.

Or to myself. Besides, your feelings for me aren’t real. The Society did this to you. And if they did it to you, they probably scrambled my brain too. I can’t trust that any of...

Fiction is the evidence that reality exists

For chocolate’s sake!

No, look, there’s a blue box. It’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it’s meant to go. And when...

Even when the world throws it worst and then turns in its back, there is still always hope

She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock...

Depends on who’s winning the war.

I’m already under the covers when he comes in. I watch as he takes off his shirt and jeans, and climbs into bed beside me. On any other occasion, the sight and feel of his...

Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time.”–Mea Brin, The Huntress

It takes wisdom to know when you’ve had enough, strength to make the decision and determination to see it through.

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys’ game.

i can wait wait wait..to go to the other side of life..but dis wait seems like d rainbow in the night..so dat u have to wonder about the presence of sun in no light

We’d stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You’d think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn’t.

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered…

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

Where have all the Fembots gone?

Perfection all the time would drive them mad. For every perfect little town, there’s something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

I need to fight for the preservation of the Earth type planets and its coexistence with worlds after death.-Banyan

Sound waves, regardless of their frequency or intensity, can only be detected by the Mole Fly’s acute sense of smell—it is a little known fact that the Mole Fly’s auditory receptors do not, in fact,...

The castle of Enysfarne was a dark and towering force that hovered over what was left of my innocence. It contained my destiny, of that I had no doubt whatsoever; a fate that threatened to...

If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.