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> [“Um… Eve…can I ask…?” “About what?” Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it to do something clever, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-caine/um-eve-can-i-ask-about-what-eve-was-still-frowning-at-the-pasta-like/)

[Rachel Caine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-caine/)

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> [Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gerrold/star-trek-is-the-mcdonald-s-of-science-fiction-it-s-fast-food/)

[David Gerrold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gerrold/)

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> [I used to be a strong believer that we would eventually colonize the solar system the way it's been done in science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alastair-reynolds/i-used-to-be-a-strong-believer-that-we-would-eventually-colonize-the/)

[Alastair Reynolds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alastair-reynolds/)

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> [“The winged human glanced towards Retina briefly. “It’s okay Dr. Blade. Scientists should never be blown away from the nature of facts.”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dew-platt/the-winged-human-glanced-towards-retina-briefly-it-s-okay-dr-blade/)

[Dew Platt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dew-platt/)

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> [Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-berardinelli/seventeen-years-after-its-intial-release-the-empire-strikes-back-is/)

[James Berardinelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-berardinelli/)

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> [“Science fiction and fantasy are very closely related genres, and a lot of people say that the genres are so close that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-chiang/science-fiction-and-fantasy-are-very-closely-related-genres-and-a-lot/)

[Ted Chiang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-chiang/)

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> [“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-borchert/my-mother-neither-encouraged-the-reading-of-science-fiction-nor-did/)

[Don Borchert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-borchert/)

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> [ “The mice were furious." \[...\] "Oh yes," said the old man mildly. "Yes well so I expect were the dogs and cats… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-adams/the-mice-were-furious-oh-yes-said-the-old-man-mildly-yes-well-so-i/)

[Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-adams/)

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> [In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-zelazny/in-a-sense-fantasy-is-a-freer-play-of-the-imagination-you-can-achieve/)

[Roger Zelazny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-zelazny/)

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> [Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/nearly-all-the-writing-of-our-time-is-likely-to-disappear-in-a/)

[Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/)

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> [The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-aldiss/the-fatal-error-of-much-science-fiction-has-been-to-subscribe-to-an/)

[Brian Aldiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-aldiss/)

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> [“The Linux world behaves in many respects like a free market or an ecology, a collection of selfish agents attempting to maximize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-s-raymond/the-linux-world-behaves-in-many-respects-like-a-free-market-or-an/)

[Eric S. Raymond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-s-raymond/)

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> [“Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/science-fiction-is-the-fiction-of-ideas-ideas-excite-me-and-as-soon/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

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> [“It was the dog Abel, who - as animals have been reported to do - had made his way over all England's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-w-jeter/it-was-the-dog-abel-who-as-animals-have-been-reported-to-do-had-made/)

[K.W. Jeter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-w-jeter/)

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> [“And I'm thinking about the old man. He'll be pounding on the glass right about now... or maybe not now. Maybe in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/and-i-m-thinking-about-the-old-man-he-ll-be-pounding-on-the-glass/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

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> [If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-henriksen/if-i-would-had-been-born-years-earlier-i-would-have-been-in-all-the/)

[Lance Henriksen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-henriksen/)

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> [“Our late modern world prides itself on recognising, for the first time in history, the basic equality of all humans, yet it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/our-late-modern-world-prides-itself-on-recognising-for-the-first-time/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

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> [ \[Science fiction is\] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kingsley-amis/science-fiction-is-that-class-of-prose-narrative-treating-of-a/)

[Kingsley Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kingsley-amis/)

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> [Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-j-sawyer/regrettably-with-2001-having-a-title-that-had-a-year-in-it-science/)

[Robert J. Sawyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-j-sawyer/)

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> [“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-oreskes/science-fiction-writers-construct-an-imaginary-future-historians/)

[Naomi Oreskes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-oreskes/)

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> [“He holds her for an eternity. Time cascades into the void of the past. She inhales his scent. Full of man and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-kreitzer/he-holds-her-for-an-eternity-time-cascades-into-the-void-of-the-past/)

[Laura Kreitzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-kreitzer/)

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> [Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-r-delany/science-fiction-isn-t-just-thinking-about-the-world-out-there-it-s/)

[Samuel R. Delany](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-r-delany/)

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> [“You hunt and catch your own food. Am I correct?" "We are fierce predators of the night," DeChevue said proudly. Edwin tried…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-e-mclean/you-hunt-and-catch-your-own-food-am-i-correct-we-are-fierce-predators/)

[Patrick E. McLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-e-mclean/)

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> [ The best writing advice I had was \[in\] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-r-r-martin-2/the-best-writing-advice-i-had-was-in-heinlein-s-rules-for-writers-by/)

[George R. R. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-r-r-martin-2/)

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> [“It was all I could do to keep from lunging across the table and pressing my shuttering lips against his burning flesh.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-l-brown/it-was-all-i-could-do-to-keep-from-lunging-across-the-table-and/)

[Jennifer L. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-l-brown/)

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> [“Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/since-we-are-not-yet-fully-comfortable-with-the-idea-that-people-from-2/)

[Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-scott-card/)

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> [I have so many favourite science fiction films. I would say 'Alien' and 'Aliens' are two of my favourite sci-fi films. Also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pedro-pascal/i-have-so-many-favourite-science-fiction-films-i-would-say-alien-and/)

[Pedro Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pedro-pascal/)

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> [It shouldn't be so difficult to determine what a planet is. When you're watching a science fiction show like 'Star Trek' and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/it-shouldn-t-be-so-difficult-to-determine-what-a-planet-is-when-you/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

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> [“Technology won’t protect you from being attacked for fresh water. A badass blade will. Back in Eden where I grew up, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-clark/technology-won-t-protect-you-from-being-attacked-for-fresh-water-a/)

[Georgia Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-clark/)

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> [“You can dance. You can make me laugh. You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-anderson/you-can-dance-you-can-make-me-laugh-you-ve-got-x-ray-eyes-you-know/)

[Laurie Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-anderson/)

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> [I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gibson/i-have-always-been-intensely-uncomfortable-with-the-idea-of-a-science/)

[William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gibson/)

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> [Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-jason/hope-s-folly-is-a-rapid-fire-romp-through-futuristic-political/)

[Philip K. Jason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-jason/)

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> [I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gibson/i-think-that-our-future-has-lost-that-capital-f-we-used-to-spell-it/)

[William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gibson/)

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> [Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iain-banks/science-fiction-has-its-own-history-its-own-legacy-of-what-s-been/)

[Iain Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iain-banks/)

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> [I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-chabon/i-do-have-a-collection-of-mid-century-small-press-science-fiction-and/)

[Michael Chabon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-chabon/)

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> [ “I promised I will always protect you. You've been wounded badly because I've failed to keep that promise. \[...\] But I won´t… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-j-redwine/i-promised-i-will-always-protect-you-you-ve-been-wounded-badly/)

[C.J. Redwine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-j-redwine/)

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> [“The sands of time blew into a storm of images... Images in sequence to tell the truth! Glorious legends of revolutionaries, bound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-morse/the-sands-of-time-blew-into-a-storm-of-images-images-in-sequence-to/)

[Scott Morse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-morse/)

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> [“The Anadens have a somewhat different perspective on death.” “On account of not having to deal with it, sure. Personally, I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-s-jennsen/the-anadens-have-a-somewhat-different-perspective-on-death-on-account/)

[G.S. Jennsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-s-jennsen/)

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> [“You'd think the very thought of a romance writer would bring a smile to people's lips. Ah, how nice. Love. Making love.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jude-deveraux/you-d-think-the-very-thought-of-a-romance-writer-would-bring-a-smile/)

[Jude Deveraux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jude-deveraux/)

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> [“Dear Sirs," Flick began before loudly inhaling, "On account of there being no heat down here in account of the being nö…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rivers-solomon/dear-sirs-flick-began-before-loudly-inhaling-on-account-of-there/)

[Rivers Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rivers-solomon/)

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## Top authors on Science fiction

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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-orson-scott-card-72779.jpg) Orson Scott Card 19 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science-fiction/orson-scott-card/)
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                        "text": "“Um… Eve…can I ask…?” “About what?” Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it to do something clever, like try to escape the pot. “You and Michael.” “Oh.” A surge of pink to Eve’s cheeks. Between that and the fact that she was wearing colors outside of the Goth red and black rainbow, she looked young and very cute. “Well. I don’t know if it’s – God, he’s just so–” “Hot?” Claire asked. “Hot,” Eve admitted. “Nuclear hot. Surface of the sun hot. And–” She stopped, the flush in her cheeks getting darker. Claire picked up a wooden spoon and poked the pasta, which was beginning to loosen up. “And?” “And I was planning on putting the moves on him before all this happened. That’s why I had on the garters and stuff. Planning ahead.” “Oh, wow.” “Yeah, embarrassing. Did he peek?” “When you were changing?” Claire asked. “I don’t think so. But I think he wanted to.” “That’s okay then.” Eve blinked down at the pasta, which had formed a thick white foam on top. “Is it supposed to be doing that?” Claire hadn’t ever seen it happen at her parents’ house. But then again, they hadn’t made spaghetti much. “I don’t know.” “Oh, crap!” The white foam kept growing, like in one of those cheesy science fiction movies. The foam that ate the Glass House…it mushroomed up over the top of the pot and down over the sides, and both girls yelped as it hit the burners and began to sizzle and pop. Claire grabbed the pot and moved it. Eve turned down the burner. “Right, pasta makes foam, good to know. Too hot. Way too hot.” “Who? Michael?” Claire asked, and they dissolved in giggles.”",
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                        "text": "Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.",
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                        "text": "I used to be a strong believer that we would eventually colonize the solar system the way it's been done in science fiction many, many times: bases on the moon, Mars colonized, move out to the outer planets, then we go to the next solar system and build a colony there. I don't know now - I'm not as convinced that's the way it's going to pan out.",
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                        "text": "“The winged human glanced towards Retina briefly. “It’s okay Dr. Blade. Scientists should never be blown away from the nature of facts.” Roma smiled. “And by scientists, are you one?” “That is dependent on your opinion Dr. Hill. I’m well versed by Dr. Sangha.” Roma moved towards him, narrowing his eyes. “It is my opinion that no respectable scientist will allow himself to be a subject of ridicule by turning in his human DNA to become a freak, a beast or whatever the hell it is you think you are.” The winged human was unaffected. “I’m sure Dr. Hill that freak or beast doesn’t apply.” Roma drew his head back slightly, studying the demeanor of the winged human. “What’s your name?” “I’m Seganus,” he replied humbly. Roma moved a little closer to him wearing a deep frown. “You don’t think the word freak or beast applies?” “No. I don’t think so.” “Is that the carnivorous beaks of the Titanis Walleri I see on you?” “No.” “Can you hold the 360 Degrees field of view of the Woodcock.” “No.” “The long bills of the Australian Pelican?” “No.” “Do you lay the large eggs of the Ostrich?” “Dr. Hill,” Retina cautioned. Lorenzo seemed amused by the situation. He was smiling. “No,” Seganus replied. Roma continued. “Then you’ll say you don’t have those qualities birds posses?” “No.” “You’ll say you’re human?” Seganus blinked before he spoke. “Yes.” Roma moved closer to him. “Then why the freaks are you wearing wings?”",
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                        "text": "Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high quality of the original product, it doesn't show a hint of dating. Neither [Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope nor Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi] were able to match the narrative scope of Empire, which today remains one of the finest and most rousing science fiction tales ever committed to the screen.",
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                        "text": "“Science fiction and fantasy are very closely related genres, and a lot of people say that the genres are so close that there's actually no meaningful distinction to be made between the two. But I think that there does exist an useful distinction to be made between magic and science. One way to look at it is in terms of whether a given phenomenon can be mass-produced.”",
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                        "text": "“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a scheme of things. Young people were first drawn to fiction, but as they grew older they were pulled more and more into nonfiction and biography, because nonfiction is so much more tragic, engrossing, and hilarious than anything else that could be invented. In this grand scheme, comic books and science fiction were just fine. They filled the need for a certain amount of time, and you moved on when that need was no longer filled.”",
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                        "text": "“The mice were furious.\" [...] \"Oh yes,\" said the old man mildly. \"Yes well so I expect were the dogs and cats and duckbilled platypuses, but...\" \"Ah, but they hadn't paid for it you see, had they?\" \"Look,\" said Arthur, \"would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?\" [...] \"Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built, and we've got to build another one.\" Only one word registered with Arthur. \"Mice?\" he said. \"Indeed Earthman.\" \"Look, sorry - are we talking about the little white furry things with the cheese fixation and women standing on tables screaming in early sixties sit coms?\" Slartibartfast coughed politely. \"[...] These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vast hyperintelligent pandimensional beings. The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front.\" The old man paused, and with a sympathetic frown continued. \"They've been experimenting on you, I'm afraid.”",
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                        "text": "In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like.",
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                        "text": "Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to \"Slaughterhouse-Five\" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure some kind of permanence, if only in the history of the 1960s and of science fiction.",
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                        "text": "The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of other planets, or the annihilation of half the world--in short, pretty nearly anything but the facing up to the integral and irredeemable nature of mankind--can bring about utopian situations. It is the old error of the externalization of evil.",
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                        "text": "“The Linux world behaves in many respects like a free market or an ecology, a collection of selfish agents attempting to maximize utility which in the process produces a self-correcting spontaneous order more elaborate and efficient than any amount of central planning could have achieved. Here, then, is the place to seek the “principle of understanding”. The “utility function” Linux hackers are maximizing is not classically economic, but is the intangible of their own ego satisfaction and reputation among other hackers. (One may call their motivation “altruistic”, but this ignores the fact that altruism is itself a form of ego satisfaction for the altruist). Voluntary cultures that work this way are not actually uncommon; one other in which I have long participated is science fiction fandom, which unlike hackerdom has long explicitly recognized “egoboo” (ego-boosting, or the enhancement of one’s reputation among other fans) as the basic drive behind volunteer activity. Linus, by successfully positioning himself as the gatekeeper of a project in which the development is mostly done by others, and nurturing interest in the project until it became self-sustaining, has shown an acute grasp of Kropotkin’s “principle of shared understanding”. This quasi-economic view of the Linux world enables us to see how that understanding is applied. We may view Linus’s method as a way to create an efficient market in “egoboo” — to connect the selfishness of individual hackers as firmly as possible to difficult ends that can only be achieved by sustained cooperation. With the fetchmail project I have shown (albeit on a smaller scale) that his methods can be duplicated with good results. Perhaps I have even done it a bit more consciously and systematically than he. Many people (especially those who politically distrust free markets) would expect a culture of self-directed egoists to be fragmented, territorial, wasteful, secretive, and hostile. But this expectation is clearly falsified by (to give just one example) the stunning variety, quality, and depth of Linux documentation. It is a hallowed given that programmers hate documenting; how is it, then, that Linux hackers generate so much documentation? Evidently Linux’s free market in egoboo works better to produce virtuous, other-directed behavior than the massively-funded documentation shops of commercial software producers. Both the fetchmail and Linux kernel projects show that by properly rewarding the egos of many other hackers, a strong developer/coordinator can use the Internet to capture the benefits of having lots of co-developers without having a project collapse into a chaotic mess. So to Brooks’s Law I counter-propose the following: Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet, and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.”",
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                        "text": "“Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.”",
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                        "text": "If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.",
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                        "text": "“Our late modern world prides itself on recognising, for the first time in history, the basic equality of all humans, yet it might be poised to create the most unequal of all societies. Throughout history, the upper classes always claimed to be smarter, stronger and generally better than the underclass. They were usually deluding themselves. A baby born to a poor peasant family was likely to be as intelligent as the crown prince. With the help of new medical capabilities, the pretensions of the upper classes might soon become an objective reality. This is not science fiction. Most science-fiction plots describe a world in which Sapiens – identical to us – enjoy superior technology such as light-speed spaceships and laser guns. The ethical and political dilemmas central to these plots are taken from our own world, and they merely recreate our emotional and social tensions against a futuristic backdrop. Yet the real potential of future technologies is to change Homo sapiens itself, including our emotions and desires, and not merely our vehicles and weapons. What is a spaceship compared to an eternally young cyborg who does not breed and has no sexuality, who can share thoughts directly with other beings, whose abilities to focus and remember are a thousand times greater than our own, and who is never angry or sad, but has emotions and desires that we cannot begin to imagine?”",
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                        "text": "[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.",
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                        "text": "“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In this essay, we blend the two genres to imagine a future historian looking back on a past that is our present and (possible) future. The occasion is the tercentenary of the end of Western culture (1540–2093); the dilemma being addressed is how we—the children of the Enlightenment—failed to act on robust information about climate change and knowledge of the damaging events that were about to unfold. Our historian concludes that a second Dark Age had fallen on Western civilization, in which denial and self-deception, rooted in an ideological fixation on “free” markets, disabled the world’s powerful nations in the face of tragedy. Moreover, the scientists who best understood the problem were hamstrung by their own cultural practices, which demanded an excessively stringent standard for accepting claims of any kind—even those involving imminent threats. Here, our future historian, living in the Second People’s Republic of China, recounts the events of the Period of the Penumbra (1988–2093) that led to the Great Collapse and Mass Migration (2073–2093).”",
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                        "text": "“He holds her for an eternity. Time cascades into the void of the past. She inhales his scent. Full of man and strength and yearning. And she wonders why she ever doubted their relationship. Why she let Julian’s soothing touch coax her into loving him too. Gage is everything. Gage is hers.”",
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                        "text": "Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently.",
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                        "text": "“You hunt and catch your own food. Am I correct?\" \"We are fierce predators of the night,\" DeChevue said proudly. Edwin tried again, \"You hunt and gather your own food?\" DeChevue still didn't get it. \"Yes, M'sieur. We hunt, proudly.\" \"You know, there is a special name for people who have to catch and kill everything they eat.\" \"And that name has been the terror of the night from the dawn of man. Which name would you like? I can supply many. Nosferatu? Das Vampire?\" \"Peasant,\" Edwin said. \"A person who has to provide all his own food is a peasant. How is it that you have lived all this time and are still ignorant of the division of labor?\" DeChevue's mouth opened and closed several times. Each time he seemed on the verge of saying something, yet each time words failed him.”",
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                        "text": "“Technology won’t protect you from being attacked for fresh water. A badass blade will. Back in Eden where I grew up, the closest thing to knifework I’d experienced was cutting up a loaf of warm bread. Last night, I’d gutted a wild prairie chicken after scaling a rock face to find its nest and slit its throat. What a difference a year makes.”",
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                        "text": "“You can dance. You can make me laugh. You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got it all. Everybody loves you. You can charm the birds out of the sky, But I, I've got one thing. You always know just what to say And when to go, But I've got one thing. You can see in the dark, But I've got one thing: I loved you better. Last night I woke up, Saw this angel. He flew in my window. And he said, Girl, pretty proud of yourself, huh?\" And I looked around and said, Who me?\" And he said, \"The higher you fly, the faster you fall.\" He said, \"Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall, Gravity's rainbow. Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall, Gravity's Angel.”",
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                        "text": "Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.",
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                        "text": "“I promised I will always protect you. You've been wounded badly because I've failed to keep that promise. [...] But I won´t fail you in this, Rachel. no matter what has happened. No matter what you've done. No matter what you will do. I will always love you. I swear it.”",
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                        "text": "“The sands of time blew into a storm of images... Images in sequence to tell the truth! Glorious legends of revolutionaries, bound only by a desire to be true to themselves... And to hope! Parables of colliding worlds, of forbidden love... of enemies healing the wounds of circumstance! Projected myth of persecution through greed and selfishness... And the will to survive! The Will to survive! And to survive in the face of those who claim credit for your very existence! We survive not as pawns, but as agents of hope... Sometimes misunderstood, but always true to our story. The story of man.”",
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                        "text": "“The Anadens have a somewhat different perspective on death.” “On account of not having to deal with it, sure. Personally, I think their little immortality contrivance has destroyed the value of life for them.” “It brought you back.” “Thus I reserve the right to be hypocritical on this particular topic.”",
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                        "text": "“You'd think the very thought of a romance writer would bring a smile to people's lips. Ah, how nice. Love. Making love. Laughter. Kissing. But no, the world is upside down as far as I can see, and romances and their writers are ridiculed, hisses and generally spat upon. For what reason? One of my favorites is that women who read them might get mixed up about reality and imagine a man is going to rescue them from Life. According to this theory, women are so stupid that they can't tell a story from reality. Is anyone worried that the MEN who read spy thrillers are going to go after their neighbors with an automatic weapon? No, I don't remember anyone thinking that. Nor do I remember anyone worrying about murder mysteries or science fiction. It just seems to be dumb ol' women who might think some gorgeous, thoughtful, giving hunk is going to rescue them. Honey, if any woman thought a gorgeous hunk was going to rescue her, romance novels wouldn’t be forty percent of the publishing industry.”",
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