You shouldn’t say mean things to people before they kill you. It’s being a sore loser.

River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the ‘verse can stop me.

Dreams deny her the freedom she truly seeks. Darkness consumes. Leg muscles burn. She runs away, even while lost in the paradise of sleep. Gravity is a crushing force bearing down on her chest, shattering...

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It’s king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

Be like the koru; as you go forward into the forever-changing future, always remain faithful to the point of origin.

All his senses screamed in warning, the very air reeking of forbidden magic, but duty call him forward.

As her vision flickered one last time, the man was gone; it was her mother looking into her eyes.Her mother’s eyes were filled with so much love that it seemed to release her from her...

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other’s dreams.

For so long considered a second-rate category to other writing genres, Science Fiction should be allotted its true place in literature. The reason Science Fiction is so important is because SF authors create the future....

I take it you know my companion?”Oh,yes!” said Savage, his smile disappearing. “We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don’t let her kill anyone important. Or set fire to anything.”Your reputation precedes you,” Random said...

Everyone please stand behind the yellow line until the doors open. No food, drink, flash photography, or video cameras are permitted. Once aboard the ride, please keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle at...

Never let other people bring you down let Jesus be the one who brings you down, because he knows what he is doing

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.

Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do....

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

I go on writing in both respectable and despised genres because I respect them all, rejoice in their differences, and reject only the prejudice and ignorance that dismisses any book, unread, as not worth reading.”...

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.

One can lose themselves in the twilight, when there are no colors to guide the way.

And that’s what I don’t like about magic, Captain. ‘cos it’s *magic*. You can’t ask questions, it’s magic. It doesn’t explain anything, it’s magic. You don’t know where it comes from, it’s magic! That’s what...

Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” – John W. Campbell

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs, bangs and whirs. The street’s surroundings danced with steam and smoke, the scent...

Will these millions of children, for generations upon future generations, know that some of their atoms cycled through this woman? […] Will they feel what she felt in her life, will their memories have flickering...

Eternity is a lie and Chiron was the messenger.

Then she loved him as she would a manifestation of herself, both silenced and wounded in existence, both everything and nothing to eternity.

No one would have believe in the last years of the nineteenth century we werebeing scrutinised like a scientist looksthrough his microscope at transient beings that swarm and multiply in a dropof water. And yet...

I love writing and can’t imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn’t be doing it. I do admire writers who...

I’ll show you my theory, if you show me yours.

I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to know that very few had ever taken a chance on my...

You barbarians!’ he yelled. ‘I’ll sue the council for every penny it’s got! I’ll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled…until…until…until…until you’ve had enough.’Ford was running after him. Very very fast.’And then...

Then why the freaks are you wearing wings?

I don’t know if you’ve ever been covered head to toe in prickle bush, but let me tell you, it’s not a pleasant experience, as I’m sure you can imagine.

What will I do if I find myself with a heart?” “Lose it constantly, I imagine.

Guilt ripped into her like a rusty, serrated knife. It took up residence in her soul, settling in and getting comfortable so it could saw away ragged pieces of flesh and leave her to bleed.

He had seen many criminals in his years in Division. Dangerous men and even more dangerous women. Small-time hucksters and savvy crime lords. Spies, gangsters, assassins, insurgents and wannabe-revolutionaries. True believers and soulless mercs willing...

There’s a need, too, for a special name in order to distinguish between this present world and the former world in which the police carried old-fashioned revolvers. … 1Q84 – that’s what I’ll call this...

We bury our own. We take care of the ones we love.” He spoke softly, then placed a flower on her grave and made his way back to their dorm room.

Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.

Don’t stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane.

BewareAt war Or at peace,More people die Of unenlightened self-interestThan of any other disease

Because here’s a news flash: You might’ve wanted to shelter me, but there’s nowhere you can hide me that’ll keep me safe from what’s inside my head.

Vampires are people too!

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled “science fiction” … and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

His appearance projected danger and reinforced the common knowledge that one did not want to piss off a demon, especially this one.

I never sleep. Like the dolphin and the spiny anteater, I don’t experience REM. Unlike the dreamless mammals, I’m a construct. I am a living program inside a vast network of electronic impulses known as...

Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel.

Elijah blinked in dazzling sunlight and took a deep breath. The sweet-pepper scent of meadow grass told him immediately where he was. Winded, he skidded to a halt as the portal spat him out. Above...

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

Fantasy? That’s for the Fire Birds. Fantasy, even when it takes science-fictional forms, which it often does, is dangerous. It is escapist. It is daydreaming. It has nothing to do with the world and the...

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we’d still be sitting in caves … if we weren’t already extinct.