Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
Haruki MurakamiTags: loneliness science-fiction acid
He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose to a high of 8.79 rem per hour. Several lifetimes of dentists’ X-rays, to be sure; but the radiation outside the storm shelter would have been a lethal dose, so they were getting off lightly. Still, the amount flying through the rest of the ship! Billions of particles were penetrating the ship and colliding with the atoms of water and metal they were huddled behind; hundreds of millions were flying between these atoms and then through the atoms of their bodies, touching nothing, as if they were no more than ghosts. Still, thousands were striking atoms of flesh and bone. Most of those collisions were harmless; but in all those thousands, there were in all probability one or two (or three?) in which a chromosome strand was taking a hit, and kinking in the wrong way: and there it was. Tumor initiation, begun with just that typo in the book of the self. And years later, unless the victim's DNA luckily repaired itself, the tumor promotion that was a more or less unavoidable part of living would have its effect, and there would appear a bloom of Something Else inside: cancer. Leukemia, most likely; and, most likely, death.
Kim Stanley RobinsonTags: science science-fiction
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.
George OrwellTags: censorship science-fiction big-brother
Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell’s. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is.
Mark HodderTags: science-fiction mystery steampunk
Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.
Mark HodderTags: science-fiction mystery steampunk
There are limits to human beings and science, and fiction is one way to expose those limits. --Ono Norihiro
Patrick W. GalbraithTags: science-fiction
...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.
Peter DavidTags: science-fiction star-trek
This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.
Doris EganTags: science-fiction
Maligned –powerfully-drawn characters acting out a disturbing view of our future.” -David Compton, New York Times Best-Selling author
Kathleen PapajohnTags: romance science-fiction thriller dystopian
Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because somebody or something has compelled me to be certain places, at certain times, without fail. Conveyances and motives, both conventional and bizarre, have been provided. And, according to plan, at each appointed second, at each appointed place this Jonah was there.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: literature science-fiction classics
« first previous
Page 29 of 68.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.