The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

She feels him scoot closer, the heat of him radiating off his chest and absorbing into her skin. His legs straddle her from behind, and he places delicate kisses along her shoulder, her back, the...

Even in forgetting there is an aspect of recollection, a faded few moments of wispy consciousness clung like webs in high-vaulted chambers, moving ever so lightly with the draft.

We all have our own rhythms to walk to.

We can be prisoners together. I am en route to a wretched planet called Tarsonis to assume governorship and as you have no other, more pressing engagement, you are coming with me.

I wanted moments like this to last forever. If it couldn’t, I wanted to play it on repeat so I wouldn’t forget the details of every second.

Another oral exam, huh?’ Peter said.’Shut up, Peter,’ said Valentine.’You should relax and enjoy it,’ said Peter. ‘It could be worse.”I don’t know how.”It could be an anal exam.

Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can’t be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book.” Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995.

If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

I am looking forward to fully understanding what is occurring. Other than the fact that we are well over a century in my future—if it is MY future; in America, in an underground government facility...

What you believe determines the way you feel and act… but it doesn’t change the truth.

Sometimes the most effective idea was just so simple that nobody could slow down their brain enough to think it up.

Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe – and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every...

You mean old books?””Stories written before space travel but about space travel.””How could there have been stories about space travel before –“”The writers,” Pris said, “made it up.

Fish and visitors stink after three days.

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.

The world turns because Man is inspired to better himself

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs.

People cheer on tyrants for fear of becoming targets.

Brother, when you’ve been here as long as I have, you’ll come to discover there are only one or two essential things worth living for. Unique to you and you alone. My honor is one...

Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I am in Hell, he said.

You’ll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you.

The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one

By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use...

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...