Loki,” I said.”Hey, Princess.” He smiled dazedly as he looked up at me. “What’s wrong?””Nothing.” I smiled and shook my head. “Not anymore.””What’s this?” He took my hair and held it out so i could...

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me

Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark — to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than just...

I tell you it’s deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

norms” of our current civilization. I have devoted my life to amassing over a quarter million pieces of sf and fantasy as a present to posterity and I hope to be remembered as an altruist...

For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at … you know, that stuff we like.

The mice were furious.”[…]”Oh yes,” said the old man mildly.”Yes well so I expect were the dogs and cats and duckbilled platypuses, but…””Ah, but they hadn’t paid for it you see, had they?””Look,” said Arthur,...

The first rule in the book of love is acceptance.

And now, we have no option. We can’t say ‘maybe’ ‘it’s possible’ ‘it looks very probable…’ No way! We have to say this is what the Bible teaches! This is fact! May 21, 2011 is...

. . . there was no possible way to deny that this girl probably felt emotions much deeper than most other people. If anyone was human, she was.

Possibly. But not today, I think.

…this.

Kudzu is going to destroy something called Aevum.

Ever since I could remember, She was all that mattered.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes aren’t funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.

She’s terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

Struggling transforms her captor into a Chinese finger trap. She’s suffocating. Sucking in air without relief. Her lungs expand. Contract. Expand. They fill with lies and broken promises. With despair and lost hope. Each inhale...

If you ordered up a whore here, you’d probably get a theater major doing Joan Crawford as Sadie Thompson. I wonder what would happen if I ordered up a Hershey bar?” His eyes lit up...

Risk the risks.

In Sneffels Yoculis craterem kem delibat umbra Scartaris Julii intra calendas descende, audas viator, et terrestre centrum attinges. kod feci. Arne Saknussem

We both knew the place we were at and what that meant. We both felt the regret and the loss. We both knew that without me, none of it would have been possible. Without me,...

The kid is scary.

Love is the net profit on life.

science enables you to look things differently.

Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

Archie wasn’t waiting for her at the attic. She didn’t consider that. He wasprobably giving her time to set and collect a trap, about a week or so as she guessed, a testing period. He...

…[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it...

All brightness was gone, leaving nothing. We stepped out of the tent onto nothing. Sledge and tent were there, Estraven stood beside me, but neither he nor I cast any shadow. There was dull light...

To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, “Journey of the Chosen”.

We’re living in science fiction, but we don’t realize it.

I think you have bits of Primord in your hair…And you look …bloody…You look a mess, Halíka…But you are still the most beautiful woman I have ever laid my eyes on.

Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

Trust no one,” said Sullivan, “especially Teachers.

Two men who had never seen each other before and would not likely see each other again. But their sincerity and sweetness, their sharing an instant in a fleeting life. It was almost as if...

There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world it once nourished.

The dead are not always so dumb as you think, it takes much more to die than you would believe.

Sooner or later it must come out, even if other men rediscover it. And then…Governments and powers will struggle to get hither, they will fight against one another and against these moon people. It will...

I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems a bit pathetic somehow. Not being able to accept that you’re just this collection of cells, intelligent...

I like to call her Doctor Fisher.

Don’t just discover . . . Encounter!

It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit...

I’ll kill you…” Roma said as his body touched the floor, before losing consciousness.

You can’t show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite me to come with you, and then ask me to stay behind!

You have to think if we’ve been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He looks around, takes some pictures, then leaves without interacting significantly with the environment....

Blood drummed in her ears and adrenaline coursed through her veins, driving her to move. To act. Her hands trembled against his chest.Time vanished out from beneath her feet, one accelerating second at a time.