So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way...
Poul AndersonTags: future science-fiction american-exceptionalism
This is more than an experience in the shadows of sleep.
Richard BunningTags: science-fiction another-space-in-time richard-bunning speculative-science
When the nurse leaves, Doctor Rose mouths, “Act like you’re in pain.” Then she mimics a painful expression in case Summer doesn’t understand. On the contrary, Summer’s an expert at interpreting body language and reading lips. It’s all thanks to her observant nature while enslaved on the Cosmos. Who else could tell that Peter’s discomfort is due to him wearing the same pair of underwear for a week straight? Ah, yes, she always knew when day six and seven approached. She watched the crew member with much amusement as he waddled, pulled wedgies, and scratched his bum relentlessly. Not that anyone else cared to know that little nugget of information.
Laura KreitzerTags: humor scifi science-fiction dystopian laura-kreitzer phantom-universe summer-chronicles forsaken-harbor
A metric fuckton of dumb so epically mind-destroyingly beyond a bad idea that there's not a chance they would go there.
Andrea K. HöstTags: science-fiction
The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.
Neil GaimanTags: humor science-fiction
In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.
George OrwellTags: politics science-fiction futuristic
...I don't believe in Him, and if He does exist, I don't like Him. His type of gods aren't gods who echo how mortals behave. They're gods who are held up as example of perfection to be emulated. They're not gods of the people. They're remote and inaccessible, they demand blind, unthinking obedience from their followers. They're dictators. We Aesir and Vanir, by contrast, are mirrors. Other gods rule. We reflect and magnify. We are you, only more so. We share your flaws and foibles. We are as humanlike as we are divine, and I think we are all the better for that.
James LovegroveTags: god science-fiction paganism norse-myth
Never tell a computer to forget it.
Larry NivenTags: science-fiction
To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes.
David MitchellTags: science-fiction dystopia slavery clones
Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else's words and notes.
Megan LindholmTags: music fantasy science-fiction
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