Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays!
Dan AbnettTags: science-fiction
I've got my own toilet." -- Grace Harper
Christine AmsdenTags: science-fiction immortality dystopian
You're a kid. I didn't know we taught kids manners anymore.
Christine AmsdenTags: science-fiction dystopia immortality cliches
It helps if you don’t think of them as human. More than one officer has called this job pest control.
Christine AmsdenTags: science-fiction dystopia immortality
As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs, bangs and whirs. The street’s surroundings danced with steam and smoke, the scent of oil and grease its perfume.
A.F. StewartTags: science-fiction anthology classic-literature steampunk mechanical af-stewart
In other words - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.
Douglas AdamsTags: humor science-fiction
The mice were furious."
[...]
"Oh yes," said the old man mildly.
"Yes well so I expect were the dogs and cats and duckbilled platypuses, but..."
"Ah, but they hadn't paid for it you see, had they?"
"Look," said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
[...]
"Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built, and we've got to build another one."
Only one word registered with Arthur.
"Mice?" he said.
"Indeed Earthman."
"Look, sorry - are we talking about the little white furry things with the cheese fixation and women standing on tables screaming in early sixties sit coms?"
Slartibartfast coughed politely.
"[...] These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vast hyperintelligent pandimensional beings. The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front."
The old man paused, and with a sympathetic frown continued.
"They've been experimenting on you, I'm afraid.
Tags: humour science-fiction british
A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff.
Douglas AdamsTags: humour science-fiction british
You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.
Rick YanceyTags: fiction science-fiction horror survival choices apocalypse paranormal young-adult post-apocalyptic cassie alien
We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.
Rick YanceyTags: death fiction science-fiction horror survival apocalypse paranormal young-adult post-apocalyptic cassie alien
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