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title: "Short Science fiction Lines"
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> [“You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-wyndham/you-can-t-kill-an-idea-the-way-they-try-to-you-can-keep-it-down/)

[John Wyndham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-wyndham/)

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> [“The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hilton/the-will-of-god-or-the-lunacy-of-man-it-seemed-to-him-that-you-could/)

[James Hilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hilton/)

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> [“Case shuffled into the nearest door and watched the other passengers as he rode. A pair of predatory-looking Christian Scientists were edging…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gibson/case-shuffled-into-the-nearest-door-and-watched-the-other-passengers/)

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

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> [“That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place -- but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-kagan/that-year-the-ribeiro-s-daffodils-seeded-early-and-they-seeded/)

[Janet Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-kagan/)

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> [I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-conyers/i-m-a-science-fiction-author-at-heart-and-what-i-like-about-the/)

[David Conyers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-conyers/)

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> [“It was drizzling. As people rushed along, they began opening umbrellas over their heads, and all at once the streets were crowded,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/it-was-drizzling-as-people-rushed-along-they-began-opening-umbrellas-2/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [“As her feet beat the concrete ground beneath them, her chest began to ache. It had been a long time since she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-caligiuri/as-her-feet-beat-the-concrete-ground-beneath-them-her-chest-began-to/)

[Ross Caligiuri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-caligiuri/)

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> [“Overused Settings All too often, games borrow settings from one another or from common settings found in the movies, books, or television.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-adams/overused-settings-all-too-often-games-borrow-settings-from-one/)

[Ernest Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-adams/)

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> [“I want to end my life like a human being: in Intensive Care, high on morphine, surrounded by cripplingly expensive doctors and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/i-want-to-end-my-life-like-a-human-being-in-intensive-care-high-on/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

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> [“Wars and chaoses and paradoxes ago, two mathematicians between them ended an age d began another for our hosts, our ghosts called…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-r-delany/wars-and-chaoses-and-paradoxes-ago-two-mathematicians-between-them/)

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

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> [“I love him, and I love us together more than I love myself. I will do what you ask, but if," Kara…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-laforge/i-love-him-and-i-love-us-together-more-than-i-love-myself-i-will-do/)

[Anna LaForge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-laforge/)

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> [Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/fiction-writers-at-least-in-their-braver-moments-do-desire-the-truth/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-scieszka/my-platform-has-been-to-reach-reluctant-readers-and-one-of-the-best/)

[Jon Scieszka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-scieszka/)

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> [Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-grinspoon/certainly-for-me-as-an-astrobiologist-science-fiction-has-played-an/)

[David Grinspoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-grinspoon/)

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> [We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ridley/we-see-films-all-the-time-whether-they-have-access-to-all-kinds-of/)

[John Ridley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ridley/)

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> [“Everything tends to become a satellite - even our brains may be said to be outside us now, floating around us in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/everything-tends-to-become-a-satellite-even-our-brains-may-be-said-to/)

[Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/)

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> [“Humanity’s first faster-than-light spacecraft crashed into Pluto and vaporised a significant portion of it. Oops. Pluto’s status as a planet had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-g-estrella/humanity-s-first-faster-than-light-spacecraft-crashed-into-pluto-and/)

[L. G. Estrella](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-g-estrella/)

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> [One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-offerman/one-of-the-most-poignant-pieces-of-recent-science-fiction-for-me-was/)

[Nick Offerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-offerman/)

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> [“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/as-often-i-have-been-a-science-fiction-writer-writing-science-fiction/)

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

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> [“Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It's about asking an impossible question, "What if...?" and building a story out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-robinson/science-fiction-as-a-genre-is-fundamentally-about-ideas-it-s-about/)

[Dave Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-robinson/)

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> [“...I don't believe in Him, and if He does exist, I don't like Him. His type of gods aren't gods who echo…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-lovegrove/i-don-t-believe-in-him-and-if-he-does-exist-i-don-t-like-him-his-type/)

[James Lovegrove](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-lovegrove/)

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> [“It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,” said the Voice... The whole distinction between things accidental and things designed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/it-is-not-for-nothing-that-you-are-named-ransom-said-the-voice-the/)

[C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/)

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> [“Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lois-mcmaster-bujold/tej-seemed-such-a-sunny-personality-much-of-the-time-these-flashes-of/)

[Lois McMaster Bujold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lois-mcmaster-bujold/)

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> [If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-r-r-martin-2/if-you-go-all-the-way-back-i-ve-always-written-science-fiction-i-ve/)

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

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> [“Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/edgar-allan-poe-was-an-american-poet-short-story-writer-playwright/)

[Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/)

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> [“Brea watched the other Jaren, the Jaren she wasn't sure she wanted to know, slip through the cracks of his face. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-pike/brea-watched-the-other-jaren-the-jaren-she-wasn-t-sure-she-wanted-to/)

[Daniel Pike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-pike/)

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> [“Expect an army of Vigil drones, nearly as a many Praesidis guards, a Machim ground detachment of super-soldiers and at least one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-s-jennsen/expect-an-army-of-vigil-drones-nearly-as-a-many-praesidis-guards-a/)

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

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> [Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/ribofunk-indicates-a-focus-on-biology-as-the-upcoming-big-science-in/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

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> [I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/i-define-science-fiction-as-the-art-of-the-possible-fantasy-is-the-3/)

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

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> [I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-gibbons/i-vividly-remember-my-first-superman-comic-which-my-granddad-bought/)

[Dave Gibbons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-gibbons/)

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> [The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-o-wilson/the-solutions-like-freezing-zygotes-fertilized-eggs-of-all-kinds-of/)

[E. O. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-o-wilson/)

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> [Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/mining-asteroids-is-a-well-oiled-trope-of-science-fiction-but-someday/)

[Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/)

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> [“My dear sir, that is just where you are wrong. That is just where the whole world has gone wrong. We are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells-2/my-dear-sir-that-is-just-where-you-are-wrong-that-is-just-where-the/)

[H.G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells-2/)

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> [“Perhaps you would have preferred it if I had not written you any letter. Perhaps you would have liked it better if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-lix-j-palma/perhaps-you-would-have-preferred-it-if-i-had-not-written-you-any/)

[Félix J. Palma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-lix-j-palma/)

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> [For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-chatfield/for-the-moment-machines-able-to-think-in-anything-approaching-a-human/)

[Tom Chatfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-chatfield/)

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> [“I believe you to be Filidor Vesh," said the dwarf. "You are entitled to your beliefs, however ill-founded," Filidor replied. "No doubt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-hughes/i-believe-you-to-be-filidor-vesh-said-the-dwarf-you-are-entitled-to/)

[Matthew Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-hughes/)

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> [“With biting solemnity he spoke. “What are you holding on to as Mara? Why are you holding on to what does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dew-platt/with-biting-solemnity-he-spoke-what-are-you-holding-on-to-as-mara-why/)

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

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> [The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/the-most-watched-programme-on-the-bbc-after-the-news-is-probably/)

[Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/)

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> [My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gerrold/my-approach-to-star-trek-was-i-know-science-fiction-and-i-know-screen/)

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

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> [“The second jet, however, brought the promise of a third and a fourth. Here was a pattern. Jets are falling out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-howey/the-second-jet-however-brought-the-promise-of-a-third-and-a-fourth/)

[Hugh Howey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-howey/)

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## Top authors on Science fiction

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alan-titchmarsh-10400.jpg) G.S. Jennsen 64 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science-fiction/g-s-jennsen/)
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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-arthur-c-clarke-14877.jpg) Arthur C. Clarke 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science-fiction/arthur-c-clarke/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-isaac-asimov-44668.jpg) Isaac Asimov 21 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science-fiction/isaac-asimov/)
- [ ![](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/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alastair-reynolds-10455.jpg) Alastair Reynolds 19 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science-fiction/alastair-reynolds/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-anacharsis-12573.jpg) Frederik Pohl 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science-fiction/frederik-pohl/)

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                        "text": "“The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively (and he thought of it as he contemplated the small orderliness of the cabin against the window background of such frantic natural scenery), the will of man and the lunacy of God.”",
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                        "text": "“Case shuffled into the nearest door and watched the other passengers as he rode. A pair of predatory-looking Christian Scientists were edging toward a trio of young office techs who wore idealized holographic vaginas on their wrists, wet pink glittering under the harsh lighting. The techs licked their perfect lips nervously and eyed the Christian Scientists from beneath lowered metallic lids. The girls looked like tall, exotic grazing animals, swaying gracefully and unconsciously with the movement of the train, their high heels like polished hooves against the gray metal of the car’s floor. Before they could stampede, take flight from the missionaries, the train reached Case’s station.”",
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                        "text": "“That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place -- but these suckers bit. That didn't sound Earth-authentic to me. Not that I care, mind you, all I ask is useful. I wasn't betting on that either.”",
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                        "text": "I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision.",
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                        "text": "“It was drizzling. As people rushed along, they began opening umbrellas over their heads, and all at once the streets were crowded, too. Arched umbrella roofs collided with one another. The men were courteous, and when passing Tereza they held their umbrellas high over their heads and gave her room to go by. But the women would not yield; each looked straight ahead, waiting for the other woman to acknowledge her inferiority and step aside. The meeting of the umbrellas was a test of strength. At first Tereza gave way, but when she realized her courtesy was not being reciprocated, she started clutching her umbrella like the other women and ramming it forcefully against the oncoming umbrellas. No one ever said \"Sorry.\" For the most part no one said anything, though once or twice she did hear a \"Fat cow!\" or \"Fuck you!\" The women thus armed with umbrellas were both young and old, but the younger among them proved the more steeled warriors. Tereza recalled the days of the invasion and the girls in miniskirts carrying flags on long staffs. Theirs was a sexual vengeance: the Russian soldiers had been kept in enforced celibacy for several long years and must have felt they had landed on a planet invented by a science fiction writer, a planet of stunning women who paraded their scorn on beautiful long legs the likes of which had not been seen in Russia for the past five or six centuries. She had taken many pictures of those young women against a backdrop of tanks. How she had admired them! And now these same women were bumping into her, meanly and spitefully. Instead of flags, they held umbrellas, but they held them with the same pride. They were ready to fight as obstinately against a foreign army as against an umbrella that refused to move out of their way. ”",
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                        "text": "“As her feet beat the concrete ground beneath them, her chest began to ache. It had been a long time since she had run at a full sprint. She was, quite literally, running for her life, and leaving everything she had known before behind. Regardless of her past experiences, here she was, blindly following a girl, who was virtually a stranger, because she had promised to lead Eleanor to safety.”",
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                        "text": "“Overused Settings All too often, games borrow settings from one another or from common settings found in the movies, books, or television. A huge number of games are set in science fiction and fantasy worlds, especially the quasi-medieval, sword-and-sorcery fantasy inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien and Dungeons & Dragons, popular with the young people who used to be the primary—indeed, almost the only—market for computer games. But a more diverse audience plays games nowadays, and they want new worlds to play in. You should look beyond these hoary old staples of gaming.”",
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                        "text": "“I want to end my life like a human being: in Intensive Care, high on morphine, surrounded by cripplingly expensive doctors and brutal, relentless life-support machines. Then the corpse can go into orbit—preferably around the sun. I don't care how much it costs, just so long as I don't end up party of any fucking natural cycle: carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen. Gaia, I divorce thee. Go suck the nutrients out of someone else, you grasping bitch.”",
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                        "text": "“Wars and chaoses and paradoxes ago, two mathematicians between them ended an age d began another for our hosts, our ghosts called Man. One was Einstein, who with his Theory of Relativity defined the limits of man's perception by expressing mathematically just how far the condition of the observer influences the thing he perceives. ... The other was Goedel, a contemporary of Eintstein, who was the first to bring back a mathematically precise statement about the vaster realm beyond the limits Einstein had defined: In any closed mathematical system --you may read 'the real world with its immutable laws of logic'-- there are an infinite number of true theorems --you may read 'perceivable, measurable phenomena'-- which, though contained in the original system, can not be deduced from it --read 'proven with ordinary or extraordinary logic.' Which is to say, there are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy, Horatio. There are an infinite number of true things in the world with no way of ascertaining their truth. Einstein defined the extent of the rational. Goedel stuck a pin into the irrational and fixed it to the wall of the universe so that it held still long enough for people to know it was there. ... The visible effects of Einstein's theory leaped up on a convex curve, its production huge in the first century after its discovery, then leveling off. The production of Goedel's law crept up on a concave curve, microscopic at first, then leaping to equal the Einsteinian curve, cross it, outstrip it. At the point of intersection, humanity was able to reach the limits of the known universe... ... And when the line of Goedel's law eagled over Einstein's, its shadow fell on a dewerted Earth. The humans had gone somewhere else, to no world in this continuum. We came, took their bodies, their souls--both husks abandoned here for any wanderer's taking. The Cities, once bustling centers of interstellar commerce, were crumbled to the sands you see today.”",
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                        "text": "“I love him, and I love us together more than I love myself. I will do what you ask, but if,\" Kara swallowed hard, \"...if I lose him, I'll join him in death.\" Vena resisted the urge to stroke the fine mass of dark curls away from the heart-shaped face that gazed at her so fiercely. The woman who faced her, proudly announcing her ability to choose, was no longer the winsome, pliable girl of the garden.”",
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                        "text": "Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!",
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                        "text": "My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.",
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                        "text": "Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that we are trying to study and search for something - life - that we can't define in a rigorous way. We only have one example of a biosphere, so we can't really give a good definition.",
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                        "text": "“It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,” said the Voice... The whole distinction between things accidental and things designed, like the distinction between fact and myth, was purely terrestrial. The pattern is so large that within the little frame of earthly experience there appear pieces of it between which we can see no connection, and other pieces between which we can. Hence we rightly, for our sue, distinguish the accidental from the essential. But step outside that frame and the distinction drops down into the void, fluttering useless wings. He had been forced out of the frame, caught up into the larger pattern… “My name also is Ransom,” said the Voice.”",
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                        "text": "If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster stories, right from the beginning of my career. I've always moved back and forth between the genres. I don't really recognise that there's a significant difference between them in some senses.",
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                        "text": "“Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre.Poe died at the age of 40. The cause of his death is undetermined and has been attributed to alcohol, drugs, cholera, rabies, suicide (although likely to be mistaken with his suicide attempt in the previous year), tuberculosis, heart disease, brain congestion and other agents. Source: Wikipedia”",
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                        "text": "The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.",
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                        "text": "“My dear sir, that is just where you are wrong. That is just where the whole world has gone wrong. We are always getting away from the present movement. Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.”",
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                        "text": "“Perhaps you would have preferred it if I had not written you any letter. Perhaps you would have liked it better if I had let you meet your fate unprepared. After all, what awaits you is not all that bad and even contains moments of happiness, as you have seen. But if I wrote to you, it is because somehow I feel this is not the life you should live. Indeed, perhaps you should stay in the past, living happily with Jane and turning me into a successful writer who knows nothing about journeys through time, not real ones anyway. For me it is too late, of course, I cannot choose a different life, but you can. You can still choose between your life and the life I have just recounted to you, between going on being Bertie or becoming me. In the end, that is what time travel gives us, a second chance, the opportunity to go back and do things differently.”",
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                        "text": "“I believe you to be Filidor Vesh,\" said the dwarf. \"You are entitled to your beliefs, however ill-founded,\" Filidor replied. \"No doubt you will wish to search further for this Vesh, rather than impose your presence upon a man called hence by urgent affairs.\" The dwarf transferred his grip from Filidor's mantle to his arm. His gaze swept quickly over the young man's features. \"This belief is supported by the evidence, since you answer to a point the description furnished me.\" \"You are plainly the dupe of some prankster, who abuses the dignity of your years by sending you on a fool's errand,\" said Filidor. \"Were I you, I would seek out the rascal and thrash him.”",
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                        "text": "“With biting solemnity he spoke. “What are you holding on to as Mara? Why are you holding on to what does not exist and was once known? Why not let her be dusts to the winds of Teracia, insignificant in the eyes of what Atheists believe?” Teracia was home to the American Spiritualist headquarters and a very large expanse of forestry. Roma, to keep Mara’s last wishes had visited Teracia, against his Atheist believes, to spread her ashes so her soul may roam free. What soared through Roma was more sadness than anger in the moment. But the anger was enough to push him head first into Retina. “How dare you? You stupid son of a bitch…Ahh!” The force that took Roma forward took them over the compliant material that was the railing and they became subject to gravity. The impact resisting, antigravity flooring broke the majority of their fall. And as Roma traveled the approximately fifteen inches resistance flight back in the air, “I’ll kill you,” he told Retina. While Retina was silently thanking Dr. Hunter, a QueXtgen scientist who had just saved their lives without knowing it, for the scientific design of the house, “I’ll kill you…” Roma said as his body touched the floor, before losing consciousness.”",
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                        "text": "My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.",
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                        "text": "“The second jet, however, brought the promise of a third and a fourth. Here was a pattern. Jets are falling out of the sky. The world has gone amuck. A GPS malfunction, an EMP detonation, solar flares, a dozen disaster films, and science fiction plots. My brain is misfiring with all the possibilities but the real one.”",
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