science-fiction

Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we__e talking now, not factuality but possibility.

I have been and always shall be your friend.

Perfection all the time would drive them mad. For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we__e stuck here until we die and either come back or are whisked off to some other hell. It couldn__ be worse than this one, though.

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 world's problems.So said the snobs who did not know themselves as snobs.

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven__ seen nobody, you__e actually saying that you have seen somebody.

If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then what kind of creature could be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?

A minute later the steam stopped. By then, I was soaking wet and, no doubt, my pores were open. Some people pay a fortune for this kind of beauty treatment. I got mine for free, if you disregard the bruises, headache and all those dead people."- Corin Hayes, Silent City (working title)

My purpose is to change the fact that you__e just food. If you learn the lessons well you will be able to have a happy long life. A lot of us believe that the human being deserves the opportunity and the privilege to coexist with us. That__ why we risk ourselves and make the effort to take care of you.- _tropos

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 do it even though it costs them.

For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.

You can use logic to justify just about anything, that's its power and it's flaw.

Xander, there are two certainties in life--death and truth. They will both pursue you to your grave. There is no escaping them. But we run from them anyway in hopes that somehow we can slip by unnoticed. In the end, one or both of them catch up. Running doesn't solve anything.

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

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.

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