Time is a thief. A killer. Time is killing him.

Calling a book “Young Adult” is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. People used to say they like to read books about romance, true crime, comedy, horror or science fiction. But...

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We...

…You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you’re right, because in many ways this is the best audience...

In one blow, that dream died as they dragged me—him—away. A tear slid down my cheek. I wasn’t the only one mourning the loss of a dream. “I’m sorry.” ‘You’re not alone, I just wanted...

Such kings can destroy a world, just as easily as they can build one.

The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it’s a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.

You aren’t the only pilot I have in my service. And you aren’t the only person with a dark past, though the illegal things that you did, you were forced to do by the Core....

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

People who couldn’t imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn’t need to imagine, because they already were. She’d said it was always a mistake, to believe...

There is no time to plan, there is no space to think. No respite. No forgiveness. There is only war.

A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their children enjoyed my books but of course they never read them, and people who make sure I...

Wit had conquered science by laughing it out of court.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

Im wyższa w galaktyce cywilizacja, tym więcej tam naśmiecono.

I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call “good,” but I wasn’t sure whether I liked “goodness” so much as I had supposed.

A whore is a whore is a whore.Except when he’s something else completely.From the writings of King Helios Dayspring, High Priest of the Temple of the Sun

I’d likte to welcome you to the land of free, where healthy, wealthy, happy people contribute to the civilization under the protection of the rules of capitalism, laws of science and rights of universal suffrage.

The day I die, I’ll be too busy thinking to notice” he waved his hand as he left the ship. – Nelson Moon, shipwright and designer of the Altered Moon. Current location: Cantankerous Base, Planet...

The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it, all of which is happening, of course, without human knowledge. Typical…

Time isn’t an orderly stream. Time isn’t a placid lake recording each of our ripples. Time is viscous. Time is a massive flow. It is a self-healing substance, which is to say, almost everything will...

Imagine a perfect world

And Elvex said, “I was the man.” – In “Robot dreams” (Short story)

Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope.

Slipstream – sorry, infernokrusher – takes a cut-throat razor to the hackneyed clichés of both strange and mundane genres. It cannibalises them, retrofits them, treats them the way Godzilla treats Tokyo, the Burroughs treats Interzone....

The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years...

The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.

You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought I was joking, I wasn’t.” – Malcador

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?

If that’s what it takes.

We don’t get to choose what happens to us—but we always get to choose how we react to it.

Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.

So is this being in love? I stay with the moment, waiting to find out, the space between us fluctuating with uncertainty. The only thing I am sure of is that each time his lips...

Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.

Money is a tool we use to reach certain ends. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s hard to come by, though, so when opportunities arise, we need to make the most of them.

It was the storm that would forever change the course of human destiny.

Her gaze travels back to the lie twisted in a tempest of mud and blood. She witnesses the culmination of her recklessness through a curved lens. Absorbed in life uncoiling, unaware of the world beyond...

I don’t think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It’s instructive to imagine...

Reality is but several levels of consciousness that can be accepted or dismissed depending on what one perceives.

An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men.

Her vision came into focus and again this time the trees crackled and mocked her. You’re going to die you silly bitch, they seemed to chant. They waved their branches, howling, as the wind whistled...

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

Don’t pick up hitchhikers!”- D. Adams

Imagine you are Siri Keeton:You wake in an agony of resurrection, gasping after a record-shattering bout of sleep apnea spanning one hundred forty days. You can feel your blood, syrupy with dobutamine and leuenkephalin, forcing...

hand. I was charged with organizing the messages: descriptions of the creatures, descriptions of their space vessels, descriptions of their conveyances, of their weapons, of their movements. Positions of our soldiers, of our allies’ soldiers....

Meanwhile here I am- Earthborn woman, a mere barbaric maula, geting deeper into Imperial Space with each passing light second. I should be trembling with fear, I suppouse. No. Let the Emperor tremble. Laylah is...

We will be one step down from the Creator,” she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic. “Imagining a world and then making it.

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.