That year the Ribeiro’s daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place — but these suckers bit. That didn’t sound Earth-authentic to me. Not that I care,...

A leader’s first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

Quote from Frontiers:”Regardless of what happened, it was definitely going to be an exciting time for everyone, the day humanity first reached out to touch the stars.

I’m sorry,” he says. No two words were ever truer.Still, she says nothing. Once a shield, now her taciturnity is brandished like a blade, carving away his sanity. She’s the flaw in the paragon of...

This one sank deep into her marrow and made her heart soar like the shuttles piercing the stratosphere.

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction

The world is only as small as your mind makes it.

Madness, and then illumination.

emergency escape routes” from reality. Romance novels dish out a banquet of Eye Candy. Otherworldly passion erupts when the two collide in an epic novel of unforgettable characters and dire circumstances.

Oareşce emoţii sunt de aşteptat de la un anticar c nd e luat pe sus, direct din pat, şi dus la Comandatură. Bine măcar că şoferul nici nu mă bagă în seamă, conduce maşina pe...

Wait awhile, and everything will change.”~’Griblich

This is more than an experience in the shadows of sleep.

Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and as a result. The mainstream hasn’t excluded SF; the mainstream...

The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction.

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… So I ask, in my writing, What is real?...

None were left now to unname, and yet how close I felt to them when I saw one of them swim or fly or trot or crawl across my way or over my skin, or...

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don’t have the technology

I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend.” ~ #1001

Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board ‘Mentor’. The so-called joy machines were banned on all planets, except under strict medical control; but there would always be...

I shot the first planet this afternoon.

We’re in America; why do I have to “Press 1” for English?

All of the things that were shown in early studies to be good for longevity—happy marriages, healthy bodies—are ours to have. We live long,good lives. We die on our eightieth birthdays, surrounded by our families,...

When the mind is free, magic happens.

Being alone does not make you crazy, it reminds you of who you are.

Kandinski looked up. ‘Do you read science fiction?’ he asked matter-of-factly.’Not as a rule,’ Ward admitted. When Kandinski said nothing he went on: ‘Perhaps I’m too skeptical, but I can’t take it too seriously.’Kandinski pulled...

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.