He made sure his tone remained casual. He was trying to keep his son unaware of the encroaching alien invasion for as long as he could, be it another day or another hour. Once innocence...

He did not have time to wallow, to give a moment’s thought to what may have happened to her or whether she was alive.Turn into the punch, grab hold of the gun, leap into the...

I thought carefully as I watched Eyuran treat Uncle Orewen’s wounds. There is no one in their right mind who would assault a Danna, simply because the enemy of an individual becomes the enemy of...

The will of God or the lunacy of man – it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively (and he thought...

You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that’s right…you aren’t the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean

We don’t want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

Cam shook his head. ‘Do you ever listen to how much crazy shit comes out of your mouth?’ ‘Nope.’ I hooked my fingers into his waistband and pulled him closer. ‘Nobody does. That’s why I...

To save you,” he says.But there’s nothing left to save.

I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.

By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow’s headlines as near as this morning’s coffee has enlarged popular awareness of the modern, miraculous world of science we live in. It has helped...

When mankind ascended to the stars, he came no closer to God.

Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn’t about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn’t...

…but there’s always he’ll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I mean.””Wow that would be terrific,” I said

A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss

Right now, you and me? This feels like fate, if fate can be felt.

I have been and always shall be your friend.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

Since the war, we’re the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how...

I would wish you gods speed but I don’t want you to waste time looking for him.

The answer is they didn’t. They aren’t here, Razor. They never were it’s just us. It’s always been just us.

What the fuck are cavemen doing here?

Any resemblance to real events, actual persons, or reality in general is entirely coincidental.

I get tired of hearing some science-fiction fans saying that characterization isn’t important in SF. In point of fact, I think it’s probably more important in SF than in mainstream fiction. After all, if the...

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth – learning and loving. Nothing else – not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake – can possible have the same lasting...

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.

Xander, there are two certainties in life–death and truth. They will both pursue you to your grave. There is no escaping them. But we run from them anyway in hopes that somehow we can slip...

The name Atlantis came from an old book Victoria had never read. A lifetime residency in the ASM paradise was rumored to cost anywhere from 15 to 20 million dollars. The rich and powerful lived...

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has not been forgiven for its crap. The reason is that science fiction inherently distrusts the ‘eternal verities’ on which...

Those deep set eyes that look like they could tell stories for days, and that wavy brown hair that feels soft between my fingers. I try to memorize the angles of his jaw and the...

Improving intelligence is possible, but it is more likely to occur if children are given the right experiences at the right ages.

History is written by the survivors.

[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and...

One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.

Apparently loved did weird things to a girl’s practical decision-making skills – Matilda

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

Oh, Valkyrie, you have no idea.” Tell me then.

Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula… In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light whether you like it or not. We’re all made of the same star...

A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that’s so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket. I will help Kudzu destroy Aevum. Just like Magnus destroyed my mother.

Never tell a computer to forget it.

She studied my face for a long minute. “Are you going to help my mom?” It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren’t that simple, that some...

Why do humans never do as they’re told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn’t, bad idea.

I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction.

I’ll kill him.

Please take note that any and all dragon petting will be at your own peril. We are not liable for any injuries sustained while petting.

Sometimes, breaking out of a certain mentality is like planning a prison break. You can’t just go for it and hope for the best; it requires strategy.

Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people in headphones sat at a bank of machines: the blind and the illiterate...

Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else’s words and notes.