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You mean old books?""Stories written before space travel but about space travel.""How could there have been stories about space travel before --""The ...more

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If this place were closer to Terra there’d be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The trees would be gone. There’d be old jet motors in ...more

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Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That's just desire. You want to have it around, take it h...more

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I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist of an sf story or novel ...more

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What sort of an imaginary voice is that? I asked myself, suppose Columbus had heard an imaginary voice telling him to sail west. And because of it he ...more

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Because of an imaginary voice, Nicholas had become a whole person; rather than the partial person he had been in Berkeley. If he had remained in Berke...more

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It’s not just the drive. They’re right out front. Everywhere. Waiting for me. All day and night.”“Who are, dear?”“Robots selling things. As soon as I ...more

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Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might commun...more

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Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step.

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I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put...more

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He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But something about it struck him as strange. A shimmer, an un...more

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Masochism is more widespread than we realize because it takes an attenuated form. The basic dynamism is as follows: a human being sees something bad w...more

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...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and enjoy it; joy i...more

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God's M.O., he reflected, is to transmute evil into good. If He is active here, He is doing that now, although our eyes can't perceive it; the process...more

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