My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

She was petrified now but I simply slung her over my shoulder and made for my bunk. My 2IC who had caught the whole show approached.‘Sir do you think it’s fair, you have banned all...

Un sueño puede conducir a muchas historias, una historia puede ser el resultado de muchos sueños

That’s science fiction shit,” “It’s only fiction until science catches up.

I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

They flew high above savanna grassland. The sky was the deep cornflower blue of a sunny late afternoon on Earth…exactly the color of a sunny late afternoon on Earth.Only there was no sun. Whatever was...

Three weeks hadn’t changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable.She was thrilled to be back.

I am not capable of love. – Felix

Since he’d stepped out of medical school, all he’d ever done was fulfil the same three basic templates, again and again and again. The possibility of infinite variation had led only to convergence.

When you got captured, I didn’t know…” He trailed off, had to chug whiskey before he could continue. “If it’d be like…””What?””Like it was with Clotile.””Oh, Jackson, no. I was okay. I’m unharmed.””Didn’t know if...

What are you about?” said the vehicle as a panel popped open to reveal delicate components. “I am not accustomed to such usage.”The little man said nothing, but began to rearrange connections and sever some...

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

Time is a thief. A killer. Time is killing him.

Calling a book “Young Adult” is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. People used to say they like to read books about romance, true crime, comedy, horror or science fiction. But...

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We...

…You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you’re right, because in many ways this is the best audience...

In one blow, that dream died as they dragged me—him—away. A tear slid down my cheek. I wasn’t the only one mourning the loss of a dream. “I’m sorry.” ‘You’re not alone, I just wanted...

Such kings can destroy a world, just as easily as they can build one.

The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it’s a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.

You aren’t the only pilot I have in my service. And you aren’t the only person with a dark past, though the illegal things that you did, you were forced to do by the Core....

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.

The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his pride will suffer. A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however...

Your thoughts are transparent.

So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the earth. Too deep to feel the heat of it, but...

Well, no. I thought you were a criminal.

I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call “good,” but I wasn’t sure whether I liked “goodness” so much as I had supposed.

A whore is a whore is a whore.Except when he’s something else completely.From the writings of King Helios Dayspring, High Priest of the Temple of the Sun

I’d likte to welcome you to the land of free, where healthy, wealthy, happy people contribute to the civilization under the protection of the rules of capitalism, laws of science and rights of universal suffrage.

The day I die, I’ll be too busy thinking to notice” he waved his hand as he left the ship. – Nelson Moon, shipwright and designer of the Altered Moon. Current location: Cantankerous Base, Planet...

The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it, all of which is happening, of course, without human knowledge. Typical…

Time isn’t an orderly stream. Time isn’t a placid lake recording each of our ripples. Time is viscous. Time is a massive flow. It is a self-healing substance, which is to say, almost everything will...

Imagine a perfect world

And Elvex said, “I was the man.” – In “Robot dreams” (Short story)

Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope.

Slipstream – sorry, infernokrusher – takes a cut-throat razor to the hackneyed clichés of both strange and mundane genres. It cannibalises them, retrofits them, treats them the way Godzilla treats Tokyo, the Burroughs treats Interzone....

The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years...

The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.

You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought I was joking, I wasn’t.” – Malcador

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?

If that’s what it takes.

We don’t get to choose what happens to us—but we always get to choose how we react to it.

Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.

So is this being in love? I stay with the moment, waiting to find out, the space between us fluctuating with uncertainty. The only thing I am sure of is that each time his lips...

Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.

Money is a tool we use to reach certain ends. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s hard to come by, though, so when opportunities arise, we need to make the most of them.

It was the storm that would forever change the course of human destiny.

Her gaze travels back to the lie twisted in a tempest of mud and blood. She witnesses the culmination of her recklessness through a curved lens. Absorbed in life uncoiling, unaware of the world beyond...