Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be.”Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The Phoenix Shadow

Technos and clerics have much in common. Both take a world that can’t be fully understood and try to explain its fundamental properties. Clerics postulate beliefs that can never be proven; they demand you accept...

It’s impossible to walk through solid rock… You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.

The Googleplex Star Thinker is a super-computer from the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity and has the ability to calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle during a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard.The...

They knew where they were headed but they didn’t know where they were going. Retina shrugged the thought. Roma complained about the possibility they were walking into a trap. After all, he was one of...

serious” writers, science fiction worms its way into our cultural psyche in interesting ways, and not just as predictors of technology. Many of these writers translate the –isms of our times into imagined futures populated...

The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only...

Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.

Yes, she loved her ship more than she had loved him. But what she loved even more was what it gave her: freedom, and the key to the marvels of space. It gave her the...

First of all, you’re dead. Secondly, I cut off your head. Thirdly… yes, I know that rhymed, you really don’t have to tell me.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Is it painful?” the groundskeeper asked. “I am asking for science.

Well you know what they say. It’s always raining somewhere.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you’ve set. But if you’re writing about science, you have to first learn what you’re writing about.

Yeah, telling your girlfriend the Angel of Death might visit her if some switch is flipped is normal pillow talk.

Maligned –powerfully-drawn characters acting out a disturbing view of our future.” -David Compton, New York Times Best-Selling author

Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because somebody or something has compelled me to be certain places, at certain times,...

Is that a compliment or an insult?”Analia only shrugged.

Almsgiving is a major tenet of Islam. It’s also a kick in the pants of the highest order. Nothing is as cool as skimming off a couple of hundred thousand from some multinational corporation and...

May the gods ignore you.

Jake’s in trouble.’Luca rolled his eyes. ‘What now?”He’s gone off somewhere, I think I know where, and I don’t think it’s good.”Cant that boy ever stay in and watch telly like the rest of us?

Music can make you feel things that aren’t yours—sadness, or love, or joy. A good song has a magic to it. It pulls you in and the feelings in the music take over and you...

Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Why build rockets at all? For fun? For adventure? Or is this the same process...

Well, don’t stand about like that, man; if you’re no use you’re certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.

I know what ails you.

Brother Cavil: In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova? …I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and...

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

Science fiction is the arena of the not-yet, and every science fiction story has this element of not-yet-ness usually a bit of technology or a scientific discovery that we don’t know about in the real...

Madge: I don’t know why I keep shouting at them.The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they’re going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what’s the point...

The single word that directs a person’s fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact with is of course a common subject of entertainments and moralizing stories, but if everyone were to...

We are a species born from the planet. If the machines truly want to protect the Earth type planets they must learn to take care of us too.- Sun Wukong

La società di adesso non permette l’interpretazione della Verità ma fornisce la Verità

speak hard, steal the air.

I’m going home.” – Celeste”To never return?” – Uway”Yes, show me the way to never return.” – CelesteALL LIGHT WILL FALL

I am not a fan of the magical quick fix in any fiction, including fantasy, scifi and comic books. Unless Dr. Who is involved, and then only because we get to use the phrase ‘Timey-wimey...

We have time. Fear tangled into her clothes, cinched the shirt, spiraled into the veins.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Nothing. I’m just punchy from all the driving.

The spelunkers of speculative fiction mining phosphorescent filth from the bowels of the city of New Sodom, the Sci-Fi freaks scraping kipple and back from the bins of decades-old shit sandwiches out back, composting it...

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

She was petrified now but I simply slung her over my shoulder and made for my bunk. My 2IC who had caught the whole show approached.‘Sir do you think it’s fair, you have banned all...

Un sueño puede conducir a muchas historias, una historia puede ser el resultado de muchos sueños

That’s science fiction shit,” “It’s only fiction until science catches up.

I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

They flew high above savanna grassland. The sky was the deep cornflower blue of a sunny late afternoon on Earth…exactly the color of a sunny late afternoon on Earth.Only there was no sun. Whatever was...

Three weeks hadn’t changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable.She was thrilled to be back.

I am not capable of love. – Felix

Since he’d stepped out of medical school, all he’d ever done was fulfil the same three basic templates, again and again and again. The possibility of infinite variation had led only to convergence.