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One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things...

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I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the...

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There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real with...

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Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told h...

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

I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beg...

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To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe:...

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

He lost his appetite for reading. He was afraid of being overwhelmed again. In mystery novels people...

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She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

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

I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations ...

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Jules VerneJourney to the Center of the Earth

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our ...

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England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered pri...

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If you ordered up a whore here, you'd probably get a theater major doing Joan Crawford as Sadie Thom...

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I have spent my life battling monsters. It was only in realizing that I was the monster, and choosin...

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War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters?

The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself w...

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Kameron HurleyThe Stars Are Legion

I'm not trying to be mean,' Casamir says.'Intent doesn't always matter.

There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anyt...

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The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us....

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All I am, and all I love, is war. I don't know who I will be if I stop. The world, if it is to survi...

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If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should people give up these rights when th...

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Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots tha...

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He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose t...

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I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93...

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Never tell a computer to forget it.

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Larry NivenA World Out of Time

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Vampires are people too!

You can dance. You can make me laugh.You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat....

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Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about me...

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Book is a nice companion

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company y...

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Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in th...

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Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships....

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Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what t...

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In the desert there is no sign that says, 'Thou shalt not eat stones.

By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's...

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We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness ride...

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Martin GardnerEl Anticipador y otros cuentos de mente

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Sc...

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What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hung...

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And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.

After all, Ignatius of Loyola, a soldier who had killed and whored and made a thorough mess of his s...

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Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.

These animals are genetically engineered to be unable to survive in the real world. They can only li...

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In any case, this was a deep human prejudice. Human beings to find a central command in any organiza...

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Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for mo...

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... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the ...

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Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and pr...

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I just saved your fucking life, Mom...It's like, if you--people of a certain age--would make some ef...

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Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big ol...

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It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed...

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I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.

It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for...

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Fiction is dangerous because it lets you into other people's heads. It shows you that the world does...

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No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywher...

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The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least er...

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Sometimes writers write about a world that does not yet exist. We do it for a hundred reasons. (Beca...

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Neil GaimanThe View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Yes, I was scared of the Daleks and the Zarbi and the rest, but I was taking other, stranger, more i...

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Neil GaimanThe View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

The Magical Negro rested his red cane on his shoulder and leisurely strolled into the forest to see ...

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Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.

Is the beauty of the Whole really enhanced by our agony? And is the Whole really beautiful? And what...

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I am the scent that he will follow always, hunting for God.

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Olaf StapledonSirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord

I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, wh...

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He spent the afternoon alone in the streets.

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human ...

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It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same a...

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There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if y...

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Another oral exam, huh?' Peter said.'Shut up, Peter,' said Valentine.'You should relax and enjoy it,...

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Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we drea...

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Madness, and then illumination.

That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls ...

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What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclus...

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Orson Scott CardHow to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction...

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Orson Scott CardHow to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

You will soon learn that there ARE no strange stars, no alien skies"- No?"Only skies and stars, in a...

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

Like the original concept, the stormrider had rectangular blades, sixteen of them radiating out from...

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The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are ...

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...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and ...

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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...

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

You know, the way I feel, if I read a science fiction book by a new writer which is a lot better tha...

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Then the true name for religion,' Fat said, 'is death.''The secret name,' I agreed. 'You got it. Jes...

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A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awak...

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The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in additi...

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Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments...

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You mean old books?""Stories written before space travel but about space travel.""How could there ha...

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If this place were closer to Terra there’d be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The ...

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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 ...

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I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said ...

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Philip K. DickPaycheck and Other Classic Stories

What sort of an imaginary voice is that? I asked myself, suppose Columbus had heard an imaginary voi...

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Because of an imaginary voice, Nicholas had become a whole person; rather than the partial person he...

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