We insist that this stuff we call science fiction is not SCI-FI. For some in the ghetto of Genre this is axiomatic, a secret truth known only to the genre kids, that there is proper...

Listen: Common sense doesn’t mean what it used to mean.”-Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN

A recent survey of 2,000 male graduates of Harvard Business Schoolfound that penis length & IQ were equally good predictors of annualincome. — from “Eugene

He was just infected yesterday. We saw him last night, and he already had mouse whiskers and a tail.

Sometime we don’t always get what we want!” shouted Evie, not knowing herself. “That’s life!”… The Captain, still looking at her, raised his eyebrows in surprise. He was proud of her for being brave enough...

1620Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality’s particles interact with each other every instant, is like a note that rings and resonates throughout the great bell of creation. And the sound of...

Do you love me?” His voice rang flat in his own ears, deadened and weighted with the recognition there was only one chance, and a fool’s chance at that

In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing…okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous.

It helps if you don’t think of them as human. More than one officer has called this job pest control.

Hope replaced fear. Light subsumed darkness. Strength, born of the power of this presence, mingled with Kathryn’s own determination and reordered the last of her mangled body and soul, realigning them into all that she...

That’s how we should celebrate all birthdays… with an ass-kicking.

Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.

My brother Keith begged to go with us as usual. He’ll turn thirteen in a few days – August 14 – and the thought of waiting two more years until he’s 15 must seem impossible...

You say that as if it’s a bad thing,” Rob says, smirking.

Sleeping AtlantisSilent cool watersdancing upon her skin ~silent cool waterushering dreams within…

I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to be classified as one, so I wondered in what way I’d offended that...

She hoped he could move on one day and find happiness. He had the luxury to try. She hoped he would succeed.Be happy for the both of us.As it was, she would never forget him....

We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.

I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. – Eler Nersal

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. “I’m Tally Youngblood,” she said. “make me pretty.

Good Samaritans: Truth, justice and the American way–for them it wasn’t only a comic book code; it was a way of life. it was admirable, courageous, and inconvenient as shit. -Stefan, CHIMERA

Biz Dünyalılar, büyük ve güzel şeyleri yıkmak konusunda hünerliyizdir.

Speaking of boxes…Do you know that thought experiment with the cat in the box with the poison? Theory requires the cat to be both alive and dead until observed.Well, I actually performed the experiment. Dozens...

I’m now requesting you refrain from calling me this early in the morning, before I’ve had a chance to steel my defenses against hearing you utter the word ‘lizard.’”– spoken by Dr. Jeri Asheer… to...

By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And consciousness persists. In the language of physics, consciousness is conserved.I am the one who wakes up in the morning.Always.Every morning.I...

Because of an imaginary voice, Nicholas had become a whole person; rather than the partial person he had been in Berkeley. If he had remained in Berkeley he would have lived and died a partial...

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

May the scribes record it.

Fantastic accomplishments seem like something unattainable and everyone doing the extraordinary seems to be unlike you until YOU do something amazing. Then you realize those talented, heroic leaders are not different from you in any...

Science fiction is the one literature that deals with today’s reality – that provides a basis for discussion and understanding of the complex events of our time. It opens the doors for students – doors...

There are only a few planets with life. It is an oddity. It is really difficult to have the necessary conditions not only to support life but also to maintain the life inside a planet.-Loto

As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that reading—retellings of the old stories (Mallory, White, Briggs), anecdotal collections and historical investigations...

I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.I am descended from you, and exist in your future.Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.

Change happens very slow and very sudden.

And [Asimov]’ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people’s books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a...

What’s more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones?

–It’s not Sci-Fi, we insist, It’s SF.Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know.

loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

No doubt you’ve experienced something similar in books, movies, novels–whatever you use as an excuse to get away, to suspend reality. Literary characters, like these projections, draw you in and cultivate feelings of friendship on...

It’s Halloween, you can tell everyone you’re going as your favorite Steampunck character.””I don’t even know what that is!””Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction.

Thomas jabbed a thumb over his shoulder and raised his eyebrows.”You met our new friend?” Miho responded, a smirk flashing across his face. “Real piece of work, this guy. I gotta get me one of...

We won—this little conflict and a thousand like it—because we were destined to win. The universe will allow no other outcome.

Usually for the same reason you were unconscious, I think.

Reluctantly, we had already accepted every challenge at the moment we were born. And as long as we live, we have no right to give up. For we, or at least someone very similar to...

The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science.” – Scientific Faith”Under the Thelián Sky: Beyond the Great Unknown” (c) 2012

I really, really need some help and advice. I’m scared… I’m scared of my own home, of my own daughter!

That’s what you people do, isn’t it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.

And it didn’t matter. It wouldn’t make a fucking difference if I dropped to the floor and started crying like a baby. No point in panicking. No point in breaking. No point in anything at...