“Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath” — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.” — Leot Felton Copy Share Image
“Don't look like you're going to cry all the time." She scowled. "Tears are one of their favourite drinks around here.” — L.C. Perry Copy Share Image
“It helps if you don’t think of them as human. More than one officer has called this job pest control.” — Christine Amsden Copy Share Image
“Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it.” — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.” — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“I catch movement from the corner of my eye. A tell slender boy stands near us, just a few feet away. Adrenaline… — Georgia Clark Copy Share Image
“The paths people choose in life can lead to the creation or destruction of people, places, things, and relationships. The future is… — Stephen Black Copy Share Image
“path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“Life’s a no-rules cage fight.” That’s what Alex used to say—back when he still had fire in his eyes, when it sounded… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“The zoo grounds reeked of desolation, but the silence had an undercurrent, a silvery vibe, like the hush of a concert hall… — Suki Michelle Copy Share Image
“Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a… — Tamara Rose Blodgett Copy Share Image
“You don’t get it, babe,” he said, still looking at the sky. “World War III already started.” She propped herself up on… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
“The six stories of dirt and mile of distance between us and the Citizens of Iris is far from insurmountable, but we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Big discoveries call for even bigger responsibility, since they come with the biggest hazards, if they get into the wrong hands. As… — Sima B. Moussavian Copy Share Image
“Suddenly exhausted, she closes her eyes and slips into nightmares again. Graveyards rising out of the ocean. Her friends’ corpses in the… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“Creed must have responded in kind, because with a gasp, she broke off the kiss. Time crawled to a standstill, then shifted… — Paula Altenburg Copy Share Image
“And of course she had studied the civilization that had immediately preceded her own - the civilization that had mistaken the functions… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“To attribute these two great developments to the Central Committee, is to take a very narrow view of civilization. The Central Committee… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
A dystopia can become a utopia, yet a utopia can't become a dystopia. If the intelligent, with the power to take notice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Simon hated her for that. Perhaps it was automatic. Her appearance alone made her different from him, and human beings had always… — Louise Lawrence Copy Share Image
“This war ends, then so do the taxpayer-funded contracts, the drumbeats in the media, the nice Combatant faces, and the patriotic cause… — S. J. Kincaid Copy Share Image
“In Southern California it didn't make any difference anyhow where you went; there was always the same McDonaldburger place over and over,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots,… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“A baby almost killed me as I walked to work one morning. By passing beneath a bus shelter's roof at the ordained… — Jack Womack Copy Share Image
“Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow… — Jeff Phillips Copy Share Image
“Oligarchies, throughout past history, have always thought more of their own advantage than of that of the rest of the community. It… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?"… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image