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> [Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-trudeau/perhaps-the-rediscovery-of-our-humanity-and-the-potential-of-the/)

[Pierre Trudeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-trudeau/)

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> [“James would only look for music composed and performed by humans. Nowadays people didn’t feel the need to learn to play musical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-v-osten/james-would-only-look-for-music-composed-and-performed-by-humans/)

[A.V. Osten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-v-osten/)

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> [“Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heinlein/here-by-the-grace-of-god-and-an-inside-straight-we-have-a-personality/)

[Robert Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-heinlein/)

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> [“The Artificial’s speech pattern was an idiosyncratic mix of awkward and colloquial. It was unexpectedly endearing. “I just have good instincts. Mostly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-s-jennsen/the-artificial-s-speech-pattern-was-an-idiosyncratic-mix-of-awkward/)

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

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> [“Just because I’m a reporter doesn’t mean I don’t get to have an opinion about people.” “And your opinion of me is?”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penny-reid/just-because-i-m-a-reporter-doesn-t-mean-i-don-t-get-to-have-an/)

[Penny Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penny-reid/)

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> [“Mind you, I do recall that Salman Rushdie actually came second in a science fiction writing competition organized by Gollancz in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/mind-you-i-do-recall-that-salman-rushdie-actually-came-second-in-a/)

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

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> [We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-kemp/we-never-had-books-at-home-but-my-dad-seeing-how-keen-i-was-to-read/)

[Gary Kemp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-kemp/)

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> [I would love to see what's going to happen with science fiction with peoples' heads, because we still have people running around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-nielsen/i-would-love-to-see-what-s-going-to-happen-with-science-fiction-with/)

[Leslie Nielsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-nielsen/)

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> [As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/as-a-journalist-i-would-talk-to-writers-directors-creative-people-and/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [“In the illusion of delusion, between madness and lawlessness I exist. I dream about dreams, about illusions and disillusions and cold and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-c-lemus/in-the-illusion-of-delusion-between-madness-and-lawlessness-i-exist-i/)

[E.C. Lemus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-c-lemus/)

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> [“This is a comment on the “science” in this science fiction novel. I’ve always been partial to science fiction that posed a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-e-dahners/this-is-a-comment-on-the-science-in-this-science-fiction-novel-i-ve/)

[Laurence E. Dahners](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-e-dahners/)

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> [“Lampaxa Vorheridine? My Latin was never very good. What does that Translate to?" "Um, nothing. It wasn't named by an Earth scientist.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/lampaxa-vorheridine-my-latin-was-never-very-good-what-does-that/)

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

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> [“And then swooping back in again, even faster, one long incredible fall through the human-shape of me and this time down past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-bunker/and-then-swooping-back-in-again-even-faster-one-long-incredible-fall/)

[Lisa Bunker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-bunker/)

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> [I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bela-fleck/i-was-a-big-fan-of-a-writer-named-jack-vance-a-science-fiction-writer/)

[Bela Fleck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bela-fleck/)

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> [“I am not a fan of the magical quick fix in any fiction, including fantasy, scifi and comic books. Unless Dr. Who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-dee/i-am-not-a-fan-of-the-magical-quick-fix-in-any-fiction-including/)

[Chris Dee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-dee/)

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> [“I thought it was just him,” she says, ignoring him. “But then I found out I had the same effect, which means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-kreitzer/i-thought-it-was-just-him-she-says-ignoring-him-but-then-i-found-out/)

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

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> [“Reaching out, I grab his hand and intertwine my fingers with his. And I move into his space until we're not even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-norris/reaching-out-i-grab-his-hand-and-intertwine-my-fingers-with-his-and-i/)

[Elizabeth Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-norris/)

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> [You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-caro/you-can-lose-a-reader-in-a-blink-of-an-eye-if-a-person-is-an-engineer/)

[Robert Caro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-caro/)

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> [“Everyone asks me how I got started into writing. I wish I had some cool story to tell, but the truth is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-faris/everyone-asks-me-how-i-got-started-into-writing-i-wish-i-had-some/)

[Jason Faris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-faris/)

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> [Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-ross/most-modern-science-fiction-went-to-school-on-dune-even-harry-potter/)

[Gary Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-ross/)

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> [“Lester Dent died thinking his name and works belonged to a pulp past destined to be forgotten. Just a year before his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-robeson/lester-dent-died-thinking-his-name-and-works-belonged-to-a-pulp-past/)

[Kenneth Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-robeson/)

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> [“The most important rule when assessing abductive arguments is to consider alternative explanations. When we are presented with an explanation that sounds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-e-emmering/the-most-important-rule-when-assessing-abductive-arguments-is-to/)

[Michael E Emmering](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-e-emmering/)

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> [When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-d-moore/when-i-grew-up-i-saw-the-moon-landing-and-i-was-fascinated-watching/)

[Ronald D. Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-d-moore/)

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> [“Paulo noticed the creature’s swift and frantic breathing and the drop of red staining the ground beneath, but above all he saw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pedro-barrento/paulo-noticed-the-creature-s-swift-and-frantic-breathing-and-the-drop/)

[Pedro Barrento](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pedro-barrento/)

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> [“Blacker than the night, the wedge penetrated the darkness. An F 117 raced by, the roar from its engines screaming through the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-p-douglas/blacker-than-the-night-the-wedge-penetrated-the-darkness-an-f-117/)

[Daniel P. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-p-douglas/)

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> [ “Will these millions of children, for generations upon future generations, know that some of their atoms cycled through this woman? \[...\] Will… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/will-these-millions-of-children-for-generations-upon-future/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

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> [“Every Sunday, the Weavers drove their Oldsmobile east toward Waterloo and pulled into the gravel parking lot of the Cedarloo Baptist Church,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-walter/every-sunday-the-weavers-drove-their-oldsmobile-east-toward-waterloo/)

[Jess Walter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-walter/)

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> [Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kage-baker/back-when-the-concept-of-organ-transplants-qualified-as-science/)

[Kage Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kage-baker/)

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> [There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/there-are-two-races-of-people-men-and-women-no-matter-what-women-s/)

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

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> [“So that’s why I say ‘never have anything you can’t walk away from.’ Especially a woman. For them, because this is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-s-jennsen/so-that-s-why-i-say-never-have-anything-you-can-t-walk-away-from/)

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

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> [“We have a very short window in which to accomplish a great deal, one measured in minutes rather than hours. “We succeed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-s-jennsen/we-have-a-very-short-window-in-which-to-accomplish-a-great-deal-one/)

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

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> [The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-falwell/the-decline-in-american-pride-patriotism-and-piety-can-be-directly/)

[Jerry Falwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-falwell/)

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> [“THE BASTARD STEPCHILD There’s a new kid on the shelves in bookstores these days. Most often he can be found back in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-r-r-martin/the-bastard-stepchild-there-s-a-new-kid-on-the-shelves-in-bookstores/)

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

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> [“We owe our liberation to chemistry," he went on. "For all perception is but a change in the concentration of hydrogen ions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanis-aw-lem/we-owe-our-liberation-to-chemistry-he-went-on-for-all-perception-is/)

[Stanisław Lem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanis-aw-lem/)

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> [“Science fiction long assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (much to its benefit), while fantasy long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/science-fiction-long-assimilated-the-notion-that-any-sufficiently/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

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> [“The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-difference-between-virtuality-and-life-is-very-simple-in-a/)

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

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> [“The Somnium makes clear to us, although it did not to all of Kepler’s contemporaries, that “in a dream one must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/the-somnium-makes-clear-to-us-although-it-did-not-to-all-of-kepler-s/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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> [I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ridley/i-don-t-think-it-s-good-when-entertainment-tries-to-proselytize-and-i/)

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

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> [I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/duncan-jones/i-was-also-a-science-fiction-and-fantasy-fan-growing-up-in-games-and/)

[Duncan Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/duncan-jones/)

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> [“When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet stockings;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-gabaldon/when-i-was-small-i-never-wanted-to-step-in-puddles-not-because-of-any/)

[Diana Gabaldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-gabaldon/)

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## Top authors on Science fiction

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                        "text": "We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.",
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                        "text": "“In the illusion of delusion, between madness and lawlessness I exist. I dream about dreams, about illusions and disillusions and cold and madness and you… the source. Known and unknown and the eternity and the darkness flittering with my soul and on the outside of memories; cages and cages of feelings caught in a single line of dreams shackled to a thought”",
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                        "text": "“This is a comment on the “science” in this science fiction novel. I’ve always been partial to science fiction that posed a “what if” question. Not everything in the story has to be scientifically possible, but you suspend your disbelief regarding one or two things that aren’t thought to be possible. Essentially you ask, what if something (such as faster than light travel) were possible, how might that change our world? Each of the Ell Donsaii stories asks at least one such question.”",
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                        "text": "“Lampaxa Vorheridine? My Latin was never very good. What does that Translate to?\" \"Um, nothing. It wasn't named by an Earth scientist. According to the database it was named by a Cheblookan aboard a frieghter when it stopped here looking for fresh food. His friend was killed by one as they searched the swamp for Greppers. After the hunting party killed the creature and determined that it was safe to eat if processed properly, the Cheblookan reportedly named it after his mother-in-law, Lampaxa Vorheridine. he said it sort of reminded him of her, even though they look nothing alike.”",
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                        "text": "“And then swooping back in again, even faster, one long incredible fall through the human-shape of me and this time down past where I don't know how to go any smaller and I find myself somehow looping around to out-past-too-big again; so that everything seems to fit inside the smallest place in me and vice versa. And then for a while I'm not sure if I am inside the universe or the universe is inside me. The only thing that seems for sure is that somewhere in all the dancing around of whatever it is that dances, there's a human-shape of me, with either everything inside of it or it is inside of everything, or somehow - don't ask me how - both at the same time.”",
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                        "text": "You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with so much science fiction is that the science is so lousy that it isn't worth paying attention to.",
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                        "text": "“Everyone asks me how I got started into writing. I wish I had some cool story to tell, but the truth is pretty lame. My wife and I were having a drink on our back porch and I mentioned a concept I'd been mulling over. She suggested that I write it down, and so I figured I'd make a few notes and get it out of my system. No matter how I tried though, it just wouldn't let me write it in any other way than a story. Believe me when I say I tried, but 63,000 words later I realized that I needed a chart to track the plot and personas to maintain character consistency. So I just gave up and let it write itself from that point on. As far as I'm concerned now, I'm just hanging on and trying to keep up.”",
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                        "text": "Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.",
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                        "text": "“Lester Dent died thinking his name and works belonged to a pulp past destined to be forgotten. Just a year before his passing, he scoffed at the mention of his old Doc Savage novels, saying, “They would be so outdated today that they would undoubtedly be funny. Hell, when I wrote them, an airplane that could fly 200 miles per hour was science fiction. They would be of no interest any more.” Five years after his death, Bantam Books released three Doc novels to test a market in which pulp reprints of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes were selling briskly. Thanks in part to James Bama’s powerful monochromatic covers, Doc Savage sales surged and surged until millions of copies were sold, making “Kenneth Robeson” one of the best-selling authors of the 1960s—a posthumous vindication which, for all his imaginative powers, Lester Dent himself never envisioned.”",
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                        "text": "When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really turned me onto space and science fiction, and I started watching things like 'Lost In Space,' and that led me to 'Star Trek,' which was a major influence on my life.",
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                        "text": "“Paulo noticed the creature’s swift and frantic breathing and the drop of red staining the ground beneath, but above all he saw the bird’s uppermost eye, wide open and fixed on his. That single eye reflected panic and despair on a scale he had never before witnessed. It was both tiny and enormous, and with every passing moment it seemed to expand, encompassing the trees, the landscape, the sky. That look stilled the wind and darkened the day and, at a glance, transformed a moment of ecstasy into a bottomless pit of guilt.\" From \"The Algorithm of Power\", Part 3: The Paulo Fontana Story”",
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                        "text": "“Blacker than the night, the wedge penetrated the darkness. An F 117 raced by, the roar from its engines screaming through the interior of the chopper, and then it sliced away a piece of sky and disappeared into the void. -Narrator, Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project”",
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                        "text": "“Will these millions of children, for generations upon future generations, know that some of their atoms cycled through this woman? [...] Will they feel what she felt in her life, will their memories have flickering strokes of her memories, will they recall that moment long ago when she stood by the window, guilt ridden and confused, and watched as the tadr bird circled the cistern? No, it is not possible. [...] But I will let them have their own brief glimpse of the Void, just at that moment they pass from living to dead, from animate to inanimate, from consciousness to that which has no consciousness. For a moment, they will understand infinity.”",
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                        "text": "“Every Sunday, the Weavers drove their Oldsmobile east toward Waterloo and pulled into the gravel parking lot of the Cedarloo Baptist Church, on a hill between Waterloo and Cedar Falls, took their place in the pews, and listened to the minister. But there seemed to be no fire or passion, no sense of what was really happening in the world. They’d tried other churches and found congregations interested in what God had done 2,000 years ago, but no one paying attention to what God was doing right then. Certainly, churches weren’t addressing the crime in Cedar Falls, the drugs, or the sorry state of schools and government, not to mention the kind of danger that Hal Lindsey described. They would have to find the truth themselves. They began doing their own research, especially Vicki. She had quit work to raise Sara, and later Samuel, who was born in April 1978. When Sara started school, Randy and Vicki couldn’t believe the pagan things she was being taught. They refused to allow her to dress up for Halloween—Satan’s holiday—and decided they had to teach Sara at home. But that was illegal in Iowa. A booster shot of religion came with cable television and The PTL Club, the 700 Club, and Jerry Falwell. The small television in the kitchen was on all the time for a while, but most of Vicki’s free time was spent reading. She’s lose herself in the Cedar Falls public library, reading the science fiction her dad had introduced her to as a kid, the novels and self-help books friends recommended, biblical histories, political tracts, and obscure books that she discovered on her own. Like a painter, she pulled out colors and hues that fit with the philosophy she and Randy were discovering, and everywhere she looked there seemed to be something guiding them toward “the truth,” and, at the same time, pulling them closer together. She spent hours in the library, and when she found something that fit, she passed it along first to Randy, who might read the book himself and then spread it to everyone—the people at work, in the neighborhood, at the coffee shop where he hung out. They read books from fringe organizations and groups, picking through the philosophies, taking what they agreed with and discarding the rest. Yet some of the books that influenced them came from the mainstream, such as Ayn Rand’s classic libertarian novel Atlas Shrugged. Vicki found its struggle between the individual and the state prophetic and its action inspiring. The book shows a government so overbearing and immoral that creative people, led by a self-reliant protagonist, go on strike and move to the mountains. “‘You will win,’” the book’s protagonist cries from his mountain hideout, “‘when you are ready to pronounce the oath I have taken at the start of my battle—and for those who wish to know the day of my return, I shall now repeat it to the hearing of the world: “‘I swear—by my life and my love of it—that I will never live my life for the sake of another man, nor ask another to live for mine.”",
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                        "text": "The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our young people. This poisonous rot about creatures not of God's making, societies of 'aliens' without a good Christian among them, and raw sex between unhuman beings with three heads and God alone knows what sort of reproductive apparatus keeps our young people from realizing the true will of God.",
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                        "text": "“THE BASTARD STEPCHILD There’s a new kid on the shelves in bookstores these days. Most often he can be found back in the science fiction and fantasy section, walking with a certain swagger among the epic fantasies, the space operas, the sword-and-sorcery yarns and cyberpunk dystopias. Sometimes he wanders up front, to hang out with the bestsellers. They call him “urban fantasy,” and these past few years he’s been the hottest subgenre in publishing. The term “urban fantasy” isn’t new, truth be told. There was another subgenre that went by that name back in the 1980s; it mostly seemed to involve elves playing in folk-rock bands and riding motorcycles through contemporary urban landscapes—usually in Minneapolis or Toronto, both of which are very nice towns. The new urban fantasy may be some kin to that 1980s variety, but if so, the kinship is a distant one, for the new kid is a bastard through and through. He makes his home on streets altogether meaner and dirtier than those his cousin walked, in New York and Chicago and L.A. and nameless cities where blood runs in the gutters and the screams in the night drown out the music. Maybe a few elves are still around, but if so, they’re likely to be hooked on horse or coke or stronger, stranger drugs, or maybe they’re elf hookers being pimped out by a werewolf. Those bloody lycanthropes are everywhere, though it’s the vampires who really run the town . . . And don’t forget the zombies, the ghouls, the demons, the witches and warlocks, the incubi and succubi, and all the other nasty, narsty things that go bump in the night. (And worse, the ones that make no sound at all.)”",
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                        "text": "“We owe our liberation to chemistry,\" he went on. \"For all perception is but a change in the concentration of hydrogen ions on the surface of the brain cells. Seeing me, you actually experience a disturbance in the sodium-potassium equilibrium across your neuron membranes. So all we have to do is send a few well-chosen molecules down into those cortical mitochondria, activate the right neurohumoral-synaptic transmission effector sites, and your fondest dreams come true. But you know all this,\" he concluded, subdued.”",
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                        "text": "“Science fiction long assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (much to its benefit), while fantasy long since assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (much to my boredom).”",
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                        "text": "“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”",
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                        "text": "I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their living room and just hectoring at them all day long. But if you can create a space where people are caught up in something - whether it's a drama, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or science fiction - that's when people give over their minds and allow their emotions to flow.",
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