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...

Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I’ll deny it!

Yes, 1960’s North American sitcoms have led me to study the United States 1920’s and 1930’s crime bosses— QET Jenkins

He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.

And who is to say the truth can’t be a miracle?

Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Science...

A brief life burns brightly.

We’re all the same. We all have the means to save ourselves and carry ourselves home.

Flammflorbs, archypodsplays, clinker crabs, dorsaldorydabbs, mingslakks, linglimes, occocobbers, firgengobblers, smitesnides, orkusta shelled bunkbarnacles, balootabinks, jorgentua jellyfish, tungol widders, teleosti chimaras, and things stranger, yet to be named, Klubbe and his crew members observed through their...

Love isn’t just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That’s just desire. You want to have it around, take it home and set it up...

The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrödinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future – indeed Schrödinger most famous thought experiment goes to show that the “future,” on...

It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs.

Time is spent never bought. Minutes count when seconds blur. Memories are past that’s caught. Imaginings are future’s lure.”Cass and Silver Rainbow-

Well we’ve moved through the funfair a bit – we’ve done the rollercoaster, now we’re on the ghost train.

..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.

It was also time to elect the president and VP of the OASIS User Council, but that was a no-brainer. Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were...

…and now over to our foriegn allegory correspondant, Barv Tweezman.” ~The Shielding of Mortimer Townes

Everyone has the right to believe whatever he or she wants. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Pagans, atheitsts, and every other religion. People can follow whichever they choose. Even if you and I believe Christianity is the...

… wanting nothing more than for it to unravel, unbind.

The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They’re lost in the shadows of the moon.

Suppose whatever we can recognize we can find. We can if P=NP.

The problem with heroes and villains is that it’s not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.

At his booming voice, her eyes flew open. If he wasn’t already on the ground, he would have fallen to his knees. Sebastian was instantly lost. The ship fell away and there was only her....

The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, And Number Three in Kenya. I am Number Four. I am next…” – I AM NUMBER FOUR

I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. ‘Show me what it looked like, before the fire.’ His request surprised me, but I did as he...

Britain isn’t a world power any more. Its just like a zombie in that regard; it doesn’t know when it’s dead – Samson from No Boundaries.