But that doesn’t mean they’re wrong.

Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we’re talking now, not factuality but possibility.

It’s just one thing after another. Cars that won’t run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It’s like…time is flowing backward. We’re caveman archeologists in the...

Travelers aren’t found. They’re called.

You’re stuck with me Skyguy-Ahsoka

The Ancestral Trail was split into two-halves of 26 issues each. The first half takes place in the Ancestral World and describes Richard’s struggle to restore good to the world. After the initial international run,...

It wouldn’t be fair to rank them.” Caleb gunned the engine.

Individuals reacted in any number of ways to extreme stress and, relatedly, to impending death.A non-negligible percentage of people reacted in a manner which could be summed up by, ‘Screw it, I’m going out in...

By the way, the whole hull repairer rack is empty. Counting the one you took out, we should have seven more roaming somewhere on the ship.

Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head – if you want to call it that – is the World Engineer’s Complex. That monster is...

You know what, Michael? I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship of loathing.

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

We shall give up the things of childhood — gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.

Act like you’re in pain.” Then she mimics a painful expression in case Summer doesn’t understand. On the contrary, Summer’s an expert at interpreting body language and reading lips. It’s all thanks to her observant...

Red, orange and green geometric designs painted its body as well as the flimsy collar around its neck. The creature flicked its tail and blinked its deep-set eyes, apparently oblivious to their presence.”That’s a yraglian...

Every day we are challenged by events, people and situations that are extremely frustrating and anger producing.

It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation...

We break our huddle and Eight immediately transforms into one of his massive avatars. His handsome features melt away, replaced by the snarling face and golden mane of a lion. He grows to about twelve...

How would it alter Juliet’s love perception to learn the sea is but a rounded jug of water? Would her sensuous analogy turned simple simile unveil to her the limits of herself? Or would she...

Until they learn a new position.

Oh, oh. My heart starts that quivering, fluttering thing it does whenever he hints at his desire for me. Lacing his fingers through mine, he moves to close the gap between us. I know he’s...

Uh, wait an hour?

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.

Freedom breeds uncertainty; uncertainty invites chaos.

Yesterday, here in the middle of the City, I saw a wolf turn into a Russian ex-gymnast and hand over a business card that read YOUR OWN PERSONAL TRANSHUMAN SECURITY WHORE! STERILIZED INNARDS! ACCEPTS ALL...

He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.

Dawn wore a pink dress and crept across the land like a timid girl. Her sister Morning followed, dressed in blue, the sun a dazzling locket on her breast.

The obsession with correct political belief and expression in art is stultifying the genre as it is necessarily exclusive. We are losing our voice in artificial, forced homogeny posing as tolerance. Propaganda-disguised-as-story drives readers away...

… You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.

…science fiction is something that could happen – but usually you wouldn’t want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn’t happen – though often you only wish that it could.

perils to come that would result from our hubris and blind faith in technology” may be inescapable, a time loop, a feedback loop, leading directly if not necessarily inevitably to destruction.”Fighting the History Wars on...

It’s more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.

If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.” (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)

HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!

© Carlyle Labuschagne 2014″ As I watched her run down the path and melt with the shadows, I wasn’t sure how to feel about her, or the fact that I may just have aided in...

I don’t like killing, but I’m good at it. Murder isn’t so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Close-up work though – a garrotte around a target’s neck or a...

As for you Rose Tyler you gave up on me! That’s rude. Is all I am rude and not ginger?” The Doctor

Arkady looked at the other man. he felt that he was actually seeing him as a physical being for the first time…..He tried to imagine that body with Bella, with any woman, and found the...

She stood by the bed and stroked her father’s hand, knowing how desperately afraid he must feel at this moment. He’d always prided himself on being the kind of man who could be counted on,...

A five-week sand blizzard?” said Deep Thought haughtily. “You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff.

There are always possibilities.

Thus, we must realize that October 21, 2011 will be the final day of this earth’s existence.

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong – faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles...

We—humanity—didn’t come this far by being afraid. Explorers and visionaries have willingly headed off to certain death for thousands of years and by doing so brought us to where we are today. No one has...

Alexis, please mind your mouth. Cursing in Russian is still cursing.

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

So I’m figuring this is death. The little air left in the cockpit is toxic with marthenine, and I can only wonder how much of it I have breathed in. Is my throat becoming raw...

It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.

If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they’ll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are...