I guess I should thank you for totally making my morning. It’s not every day a stranger notices my perspiration level.
- Dr. Jeri Asher (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)
Tags: science-fiction paranormal apocalyptic contemporary urban-fantasy extraterrestrials alpha-male action-adventure supernatural-suspense
My father and I used to watch a ton of old horror movies when I was growing up. ’The Creature from the Black Lagoon‘ was one of my father’s favorites and he was very excited for me to see the film. But after the movie was over, I told him that I was kind of bored. I said to him, ‘I’m sorry, Daddy, but I saw the zipper in the back of the monster’s costume. From that point on, I was really never scared at all. The point I’m trying to make is that I don’t believe someone intentionally tipped off the target. And I maintain that no one made some horrendous mistake, which I’m now trying to cover up. I believe what really happened with the operation was that our target ended up seeing the zipper. Orlo Kharms realized something around him wasn’t… real. And he was able to avoid the trap we had laid out for him.
Richard FinneyTags: science-fiction paranormal apocalyptic contemporary urban-fantasy extraterrestrials alpha-male action-adventure supernatural-suspense
She loves dogs. And in time, who knows, maybe she would even have ended up loving the type of dogs who eat other small dogs for lunch.
-- Leslie McNeill
Tags: science-fiction paranormal apocalyptic contemporary urban-fantasy extraterrestrials alpha-male action-adventure supernatural-suspense
Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, and a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything. Give them some ameliorative drugs and you had a working class, reified and coglike.
Kim Stanley RobinsonTags: work science-fiction robots humans 2312 kim-stanley-robison
Veil wouldn’t make his military invincible, but it would render every other military indefensible. Veil was it. Game over, fuckholes.
Aaron OverfieldTags: science-fiction military humorous
Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.
E.M. ForsterTags: science-fiction isolation machine direct-experience
Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.
E.M. ForsterTags: future soul civilization science-fiction travel civilisation machine unrest bodies
Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.
E.M. ForsterTags: future man nature science-fiction leviathan airship
[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and precognition, in demons and demigods and resurrection and reincarnation and ghosts and messiahs and so many other categories of almost-but-not-quite satisfying bullshit.
Dan SimmonsTags: science-fiction philosophical satirical ironic-humor
Up to me. Great. I could hurt my mom and my sisters, or I could hurt my dad. Perfect. Isn't divorce fun?
Katherine ApplegateTags: science-fiction
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