The rulers were using ancient knowledge to manipulate the amygdaloidal primal fear. They ruled through fear, preternatural fear created through soft, invisible waves designed to alternate the brain’s almond. They kept the people spellbound
Amira AlyTags: fantasy science-fiction
In some very rare cases, an opposite-sex pair was born, and they always mated one another. Disturbing as it might sound, when it did happen, the offspring were invariably gifted. Sera and Trace's sons were noted psych-scientists.
Belinda McBrideTags: science-fiction incest erotic-romance
Good Samaritans: Truth, justice and the American way–for them it wasn't only a comic book code; it was a way of life. it was admirable, courageous, and inconvenient as shit. -Stefan, CHIMERA
Rob ThurmanTags: science-fiction chimera basilisk action-thriller sardonic-humor stefan-korsak the-korsak-brothers
In Hamilton's The Universe Wreckers... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a satellite named Triton... It was from
The Drums of Tapajos
that I first learned there was a Mato Grosso area in the Amazon basin. It was from
The Black Star Passes
and other stories by John W. Campbell that I first heard of relativity.
The pleasure of reading about such things in the dramatic and fascinating form of science fiction gave me a push toward science that was irresistible. It was science fiction that made me want to be a scientist strongly enough to eventually make me one.
That is not to say that science fiction stories can be completely trusted as a source of specific knowledge... However, the misguidings of science fiction can be unlearned. Sometimes the unlearning process is not easy, but it is a low price to pay for the gift of fascination over science.
Tags: science science-fiction pulp-fiction before-the-golden-age golden-age-science-fiction golden-age-sf
I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.
Frank HerbertTags: humor science-fiction
It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,” said the Voice...
The whole distinction between things accidental and things designed, like the distinction between fact and myth, was purely terrestrial. The pattern is so large that within the little frame of earthly experience there appear pieces of it between which we can see no connection, and other pieces between which we can. Hence we rightly, for our sue, distinguish the accidental from the essential. But step outside that frame and the distinction drops down into the void, fluttering useless wings. He had been forced out of the frame, caught up into the larger pattern… “My name also is Ransom,” said the Voice.
Tags: science-fiction christian-science-fiction
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.
Junot DíazTags: humor science-fiction adolescence ray-bradbury nerdiness
Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.
Kevin HoseyTags: science-fiction
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.
Gayle RamageTags: fantasy science-fiction future-release
Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.
Drew KarpyshynTags: fiction science-fiction star-wars
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