I walked into adventure and adventure has given me blisters.

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

She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Ils n’ont aucune raison de faire du business avec nous. Tu fais des affaires avec tes souris de laboratoires ou tes grenouilles d’élevages?

Isn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.Enterprise?

Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the...

Some readers may realize that this story, first published in 1956, has been overtaken by events. In 1965, astronomers discovered that Mercury does not keep one side always to the Sun, but has a period...

Sanity is over-rated. It lacks color.

Man, that’s a killer strategy, that is, an awesome way to persuade the incognoscenti that we’re not crazed hokum junkies, high on hackwork, trying to pimp our addled euphoria to anyone who passes. Yeah, vehement...

She felt a soft brush of lips against her forehead, heard the other woman murmur, “Sleep now, chére.”Chére, Hannah though. Cherished. It was a good thing to be. She wrapped the word around her and...

Don’t Panic

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

You stumble upon an unhappy Martian sentry on a mission and shoot ineffectually at his powersuit a few times before he pulps you with his laserbeam eyes and hideous poisonous-gas breath. Glory!

The way I figure it, here in New Earth, men’s power has won out over women’s power, just like it’s done on Mainground. But men still fear women’s power. No one ever forgets their mother’s...

His whisper continued to stream a silent cacophony of warnings, kill and damage reports and pleas for assistance.He allowed himself two seconds to watch it and came away with the sense they were losing. Not...

When all else fails, use the pen.EMW

Who the hell are you?

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Yes, rules are made to be broken — but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.

That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody.

path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you’re going on it is only a story. Where you’ve been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant...

Death and his scythe do not come. No sweeping black capes or ethereal escapes. There’s no pearly gate, no prisms of colors as his soul slips away. The stillness is cold steel. The silence is...

Is the beauty of the Whole really enhanced by our agony? And is the Whole really beautiful? And what is beauty? Throughout all his existence man has been striving to hear the music of the...

I believe knowledge ought to be gained without a dollar amount added to it.

In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.

I knew at that point I was more than capable of loving Jack – I was meant to.

Colonel Graff: We won! That’s all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.

What?” The dread in her tone told Rob she knew what. “How much longer?””Thirty seconds.”She laughed with a panicked urgency. “I just tried to nod. I can’t feel my body, but I keep reaching for...

Well, it is generally considered— though not always true— that the wife of a man so honoured is likely also to be worthy of the honour, and so it is accorded her. In the event...

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon – that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.Neo: What truth?Spoon boy: There is no spoon.

Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.

Of course, if we do find the Great Glom, we will see other gloms as well,” said Dottia. “I mean, he will not exist alone, will he? Mythic creatures like him are often spoken of...

Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project’s idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy...

Was he leaving home, or going home?

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

How typical of a machine to think it knows better.

Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a science fiction novel emerges from the cosmic mix.

How inappropriate to call this planet “Earth,” when it is clearly “Ocean.

I love him, and I love us together more than I love myself. I will do what you ask, but if,” Kara swallowed hard, “…if I lose him, I’ll join him in death.” Vena resisted...

They were more than partners, more than brothers; they were very nearly the same person.

Uh, what?

By focusing on the interior of a speaker’s larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him....

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego...

Reaching out, I grab his hand and intertwine my fingers with his. And I move into his space until we’re not even an inch from each other. Laying my forehead on his chest, I take...

It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the...

What you mons making all the racket about? You wake me again and I’ll put the voodoo hex on you. All you only call me Tuberculosis behind my back now. You want the real thing?”...

scientifically.

Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of ‘competition’…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn’t have...