The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine.
Reality doesn't offer this assurance, so it's very easy to develop the mistaken impression that you're in control.
Quellcrest Falconer
Ethics on the Precipice
Tag: science-fiction
So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there, they would no doubt have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears. Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die; and, in the end, the balance being permanent, the survivors would become as well adapted to the conditions of underground life, and as happy in their way, as the Upper-world people were to theirs.
H.G. WellsTag: capitalism science-fiction dystopia prophesy
Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.
Stephen BaxterTag: humor science-fiction
She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.
Joss WhedonTag: science-fiction
Freedom breeds uncertainty; uncertainty invites chaos.
R.J. LeahyTag: science-fiction dystopia noir
Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station.
R.W. RiversTag: love gold science-fiction tragedy thriller crime-fiction young-adult-fiction crime-thriller teen-fiction adult-fiction mystery-thriller teen-thriller
The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought.
C.G. RousingTag: fiction science-fiction paranormal young-adult fantasy-fiction epic-fantasy fiction-novel fantasy-young-adult fantasy-series
[T]he new weird represents a productive experiment in fantasy fiction. The New Wave of the 1960s and 1970s arguably embodied science fiction's claim to literary 'seriousness.' This desire for seriousness is not snobbery, as sometimes suggested by folks who overemphasize the entertainment function of speculative fiction; it's about recognition of the vast possibilities within the field.
Darja Malcolm-ClarkeTag: literary-criticism fantasy science-fiction new-weird new-wave
If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it." narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19
Charles YuTag: science-fiction hubris time-machine minor-universe-31
Without ethics, science would be cruelty.
Nenia CampbellTag: science humanity ethics science-fiction
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