There are limits to human beings and science, and fiction is one way to expose those limits. –Ono Norihiro

Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one’s adversaries to underestimate one’s abilities.”~Sherlock Holmes

If you don’t leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles.

An infinitely unpleasant fraction of a second is a small price to pay for the opportunity to stride across eternity.

Space is infinite. To the mind that means freedom, liberation.’ So wrote Arisko, our greatest turkle philosopher, in his most famous work, ‘Thoughts In A Bathtub’,” said Dottia, dreamily, in an inspired state.

I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist of an sf story or novel is an idea and not a person....

To use the enemy’s weapon is to play the enemy’s game…speak the truth and hear the truth.

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

The only thing what happens in the Houses of Parliament is the debate about foxes, badgers and moles

I searched my mind for the right visualization. I knew it had to start with what I put in my head. That is where all my accomplishments are formed.

Well, it all did lead to 1984.” – Goli, the tek-lord, 2089

And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.

stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

I wondered whose job it was to blow sunshine into my ears.

I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street.””You don’t get scars.””Emotional scars then.

Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone ‘stole’ an idea: no, no, a thousand...

If disguise was a vehicle, murder was a world.

The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

The fire crackled. On Jutaire, without oxygen, the fire is different. Fed by different air. Maybe it wishes it were orange, for it sputters and reaches up to the sky with angry fists of blue...

I likes me some ‘Shit Blows Up’ fiction, don’t get me wrong.

I am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen’s eternal river.

If you want to make it human, make it whole.

Superfast beings shouldn’t piss off the comics geek-girl.

I’m sorry, Bill, I thought you said something about aliens? Did you give up the menthols for marijuana? Or maybe they now have flavored joints as well?”-FBI Agent Arthur Holcomb, Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary...

The journey is the reward.

Arrest me. Torture me. Parade me about in the public square. You will have your prize catch. And you will lose everything.

They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them.

I’ve got my own toilet.” — Grace Harper

If The Lies Don’t Kill You, The Truth Will

Good.

Well, for one, you walk around like you’re so much better than everyone else. We’re all a bunch of soulless animals or somethin’ in your eyes, I guess. You’re the high and mighty one and...

My relative examined you, observed a few of your normal body cells, compared them with what it had learned from other humans most like you, and said that you had not only a cancer, but...

An old adage warns: If you don’t know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don’t know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth...

Americans worship technology. It’s an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time–these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light...

Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships…

No Exit

You are so… 11:59

Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher

Take me home!” I yearned to fly away and land there in the strange dusts that blew over dead-sea bottoms toward the ancient cities.

I’d ask you to think outside the box on this, but it’s obvious your box is broken. And has schizophrenia.

I guess I should thank you for totally making my morning. It’s not every day a stranger notices my perspiration level.- Dr. Jeri Asher (BLACK MARIAH – A Calling)

Let’s say that the God the Christians pray to is real. He actually exists. But this God is the same as the one that the Jews pray to and the same as the one that...

…hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create – and enjoy it; joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the...

What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor...

May it be written. May it be done.

On the surface, I was calm: in secret, without really admitting it, I was waiting for something. Her return? How could I have been waiting for that? We all know that we are material creatures,...

I walked into adventure and adventure has given me blisters.

I was able to bring the souls from the past back to life.-Amaranth