I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.
Steven WrightWhy could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?"
"Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.
Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.'
Sam held out his hand. "Give me some tobacco and a paper.
Tags: buddhism religion funny sf
The columns of mounted men moved forward, passed out through the gates of the Palace of Karma, turned off the roadway and headed up the slope that lay to the southeast of the city of Mahartha, comrades blazing like the dawn at their back.
Roger ZelaznyTags: sf
The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
Roger ZelaznyStep up to red alert."
Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."
- Rimmer
Tags: humour science-fiction sf red-dwarf
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.
Kage BakerTags: history science-fiction genre sf past-and-future human-experience past-and-present
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!
Terry PratchettTags: writing writers science-fiction authors sf mainstream-lit
Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.
James Tiptree Jr.Tags: sf
A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
Alastair ReynoldsTags: politics social-commentary sf
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