Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.
Ted ChiangTags: knowledge writing science-fiction genre sf
A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.
Adam RobertsIt's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.
Neal StephensonTags: science-fiction sf
He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.
Neal StephensonTags: science-fiction cyberpunk sf
Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: adventure extraordinary sf
Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.
Spider RobinsonTags: friendship humour comedy sf callahan
Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.
Isaac AsimovTags: sf foundation asimov
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac AsimovTags: sf foundation asimov
I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.
William GibsonTags: cyberpunk sf punk gibson
You retain the Ki. Whether or not you become a warrior is for you to discover.
Richard FinneyTags: fantasy sf graphic-novel
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