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title: "Short Science fiction Proverbs"
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> [Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolas-cage/well-good-science-fiction-is-intelligent-it-asks-big-questions-that/)

[Nicolas Cage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolas-cage/)

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> [“As the night air started to creep in, he lifted her in his arms and walked the back way to their home…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-mcginnis/as-the-night-air-started-to-creep-in-he-lifted-her-in-his-arms-and/)

[Joseph McGinnis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-mcginnis/)

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> [When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gibson/when-i-wrote-neuromancer-i-had-a-list-in-my-head-of-all-the-things/)

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

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> [There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/there-is-a-document-in-every-novel-in-the-world-even-in-the-most/)

[Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/)

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> [“No, Sarah. There's more. There's always more. I won't give you up. I won't! It's not just a game. Midgard is real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brandon-r-chinn/no-sarah-there-s-more-there-s-always-more-i-won-t-give-you-up-i-won-t/)

Brandon R. Chinn

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> [“Dear Jeff, I happened to see the Channel 7 TV program "Hooray for Hollywood" tonight with the segment on Blade Runner .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/dear-jeff-i-happened-to-see-the-channel-7-tv-program-hooray-for/)

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

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> [“I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-diehl/i-would-rather-never-make-a-penny-on-book-sales-and-know-that-many/)

Eric Diehl

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> [Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimi-hendrix/imagination-is-the-key-to-my-lyrics-the-rest-is-painted-with-a-little-2/)

[Jimi Hendrix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimi-hendrix/)

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> [“They're both plutocracies, rule by the rich. If they had won, all they'd have thought about was making more money, the upper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/they-re-both-plutocracies-rule-by-the-rich-if-they-had-won-all-they-d/)

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

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> [“Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Why build…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/why-travel-to-the-moon-or-mars-if-we-only-continue-our-wars-there/)

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

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> [I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-cross/i-was-writing-novels-at-eight-it-was-a-science-fiction-epic-which/)

[Neil Cross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-cross/)

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> [I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-scalzi/i-tell-people-the-first-time-i-decided-to-write-a-novel-i-was-in-my/)

[John Scalzi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-scalzi/)

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> [There are people you do not want to upset in the world - the politically disenfranchized who feel they have nothing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/there-are-people-you-do-not-want-to-upset-in-the-world-the/)

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

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> [“The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/the-authentic-human-being-is-one-of-us-who-instinctively-knows-what/)

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

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> [“Sat apart from the decay, an area of woodland, which shimmered in green. It offered a kind of radiance Namtilla had never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-j-cowdall/sat-apart-from-the-decay-an-area-of-woodland-which-shimmered-in-green/)

D.J. Cowdall

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> [The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-j-klass/the-trouble-with-science-fiction-is-that-you-can-write-about/)

Philip J. Klass

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> [“Yatima found verself gazing at a red-tinged cluster of pulsing organic parts, a translucent confusion of fluids and tissue. Sections divided, dissolved,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/yatima-found-verself-gazing-at-a-red-tinged-cluster-of-pulsing/)

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

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> [Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-harford/cory-doctorow-should-be-too-busy-for-lunch-he-s-co-editor-of-and-a/)

[Tim Harford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-harford/)

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> [Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-spielberg/remember-science-fiction-s-always-been-the-kind-of-first-level-alert/)

[Steven Spielberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-spielberg/)

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> [Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daryl-gregory/fantasy-involves-that-which-general-opinion-regards-as-impossible-2/)

[Daryl Gregory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daryl-gregory/)

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> [“In Hamilton 's The Universe Wreckers ... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/in-hamilton-s-the-universe-wreckers-it-was-in-that-novel-that-for-the/)

[Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/)

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> [“When you mix Science Fiction with Fantasy you don't have a pure genre, the two are, to a professional separate genres. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-ron-hubbard/when-you-mix-science-fiction-with-fantasy-you-don-t-have-a-pure-genre/)

[L. Ron Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-ron-hubbard/)

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> [“What?" The dread in her tone told Rob she knew what. "How much longer?" "Thirty seconds." She laughed with a panicked urgency.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-mcintosh/what-the-dread-in-her-tone-told-rob-she-knew-what-how-much-longer/)

[Will McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-mcintosh/)

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> [“By the standards of a tourist strolling past looking for a quick lunch, the place was a dive. The sign on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-b-pruden/by-the-standards-of-a-tourist-strolling-past-looking-for-a-quick/)

Scott B. Pruden

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> [As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/as-you-see-i-bear-some-resentment-and-some-scars-from-the-years-of/)

[Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-k-le-guin/)

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> [“His vision blurred, his grip on the dash faltered and the cockpit lost definition. Then all the diati rushed back to him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-s-jennsen/his-vision-blurred-his-grip-on-the-dash-faltered-and-the-cockpit-lost/)

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

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> [I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-cameron/i-probably-spend-more-time-writing-than-reading-science-fiction-i/)

[James Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-cameron/)

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> [“They construct billboards out in the sea, painted allegories adorn their facades, hawking sex and sentiment to the opulent, the fortunate of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/holly-walrath/they-construct-billboards-out-in-the-sea-painted-allegories-adorn/)

Holly Walrath

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> [“Visionary fiction” is a term we developed to distinguish science fiction that has relevance toward building new, freer worlds from the mainstream…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-maree-brown/visionary-fiction-is-a-term-we-developed-to-distinguish-science/)

[Adrienne Maree Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-maree-brown/)

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> [“Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’ heating water and converting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/gadgetry-will-continue-to-relieve-mankind-of-tedious-jobs-kitchen/)

[Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/)

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> [“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ripley-patton/i-think-of-myth-and-magic-as-the-hieroglyphics-of-the-human-psyche/)

[Ripley Patton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ripley-patton/)

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> [Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/sci-fi-uses-the-images-that-sf-starting-with-h-g-wells-made-familiar/)

[Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-k-le-guin/)

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> [“Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/anything-that-doesn-t-fit-this-mode-has-been-shoved-into-an-area-of/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [“A história de todas as grandes civilizações galácticas tende a passar por três fases distintas e identificáveis: a da Sobrevivência, a da…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-adams/a-hist-ria-de-todas-as-grandes-civiliza-es-gal-cticas-tende-a-passar/)

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

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> [I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/i-really-wish-that-peoplewould-just-say-yes-it-s-a-comic-yes-this-is/)

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

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> [I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/i-don-t-think-science-fiction-is-a-very-good-name-for-it-but-it-s-the/)

[Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-k-le-guin/)

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> [“You have to think if we've been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-richard-singleton/you-have-to-think-if-we-ve-been-visited-by-extraterrestrial-life-it/)

J. Richard Singleton

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> [I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-flanigan/i-believe-that-science-fiction-is-as-profound-as-you-want-it-to-be-or/)

[Joe Flanigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-flanigan/)

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> [“To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clark-ashton-smith/to-me-the-best-if-not-the-only-function-of-imaginative-writing-is-to/)

[Clark Ashton Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clark-ashton-smith/)

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> [“there was a sort of embarrassment about storytelling that struck home powerfully about one hundred years ago, at the beginning of modernism.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/there-was-a-sort-of-embarrassment-about-storytelling-that-struck-home/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

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## Top authors on Science fiction

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                        "text": "“As the night air started to creep in, he lifted her in his arms and walked the back way to their home on campus. He spent the evening digging her grave, not even caring who came his way. He didn’t care whether he lived or died, now that he had lost his only love. Mike glanced into her face one more time, and then covered her with dirt. “We bury our own. We take care of the ones we love.” He spoke softly, then placed a flower on her grave and made his way back to their dorm room.”",
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                        "text": "There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter. I don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. The document is there, but a novel goes beyond documentation. It goes into opening a new vista, opening a new perspective, showing familiar things in an unfamiliar way.",
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                        "text": "“No, Sarah. There's more. There's always more. I won't give you up. I won't! It's not just a game. Midgard is real for many people and it's real for what they've experienced. It's real. We don't doubt the way they feel or what they've seen or how they spend their time, so you must be real too! You have to be real, Sarah, because if you aren't, how can I justify any of it? You are a few scraps of code. I'm a few liters of blood and some bones in a bag of skin. If I'm real, you're real too!”",
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                        "text": "“Dear Jeff, I happened to see the Channel 7 TV program \"Hooray for Hollywood\" tonight with the segment on Blade Runner . (Well, to be honest, I didn't happen to see it; someone tipped me off that Blade Runner was going to be a part of the show, and to be sure to watch.) Jeff, after looking—and especially after listening to Harrison Ford discuss the film—I came to the conclusion that this indeed is not science fiction; it is not fantasy; it is exactly what Harrison said: futurism. The impact of Blade Runner is simply going to be overwhelming, both on the public and on creative people—and, I believe, on science fiction as a field. Since I have been writing and selling science fiction works for thirty years, this is a matter of some importance to me. In all candor I must say that our field has gradually and steadily been deteriorating for the last few years. Nothing that we have done, individually or collectively, matches Blade Runner . This is not escapism; it is super realism, so gritty and detailed and authentic and goddam convincing that, well, after the segment I found my normal present-day \"reality\" pallid by comparison. What I am saying is that all of you collectively may have created a unique new form of graphic, artistic expression, never before seen. And, I think, Blade Runner is going to revolutionize our conceptions of what science fiction is and, more, can be. Let me sum it up this way. Science fiction has slowly and ineluctably settled into a monotonous death: it has become inbred, derivative, stale. Suddenly you people have come in, some of the greatest talents currently in existence, and now we have a new life, a new start. As for my own role in the Blade Runner project, I can only say that I did not know that a work of mine or a set of ideas of mine could be escalated into such stunning dimensions. My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner . Thank you...and it is going to be one hell of a commercial success. It will prove invincible. Cordially, Philip K. Dick”",
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                        "text": "“I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to know that very few had ever taken a chance on my work. I certainly won't last forever, but I'd love to think that my imagination will continue to surface in the minds of others.”",
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                        "text": "Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.",
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                        "text": "“They're both plutocracies, rule by the rich. If they had won, all they'd have thought about was making more money, the upper class. Abendsen, he's wrong; there would be no social reform, no welfare public works plans - the Anglo-Saxon plutocrats wouldn't have permitted it.”",
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                        "text": "“Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Why build rockets at all? For fun? For adventure? Or is this the same process that sends the salmons back upstream year after year to spawn and die - a subliminal urge in mankind to spread, in self-preservation, to the stars? Are we then secretly fearful that one day the sun might freeze and the the earth grow cold or the sun explode in a terrific thermal cataclysm and burn down our house of cards?”",
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                        "text": "I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16.",
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                        "text": "There are people you do not want to upset in the world - the politically disenfranchized who feel they have nothing to lose, those who feel that the time has come for revolution ... then out on the edges beyond any of those are science fiction fans whose favorite show has been canceled in an untimely way.",
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                        "text": "“The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences to him and to those whom he loves. This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Their deeds may be small, and almost always unnoticed, unmarked by history. Their names are not remembered, nor did these authentic humans expect their names to be remembered. I see their authenticity in an odd way: not in their willingness to perform great heroic deeds but in their quiet refusals. In essence, they cannot be compelled to be what they are not.”",
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                        "text": "“In Hamilton 's The Universe Wreckers ... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a satellite named Triton... It was from The Drums of Tapajos that I first learned there was a Mato Grosso area in the Amazon basin. It was from The Black Star Passes and other stories by John W. Campbell that I first heard of relativity. The pleasure of reading about such things in the dramatic and fascinating form of science fiction gave me a push toward science that was irresistible. It was science fiction that made me want to be a scientist strongly enough to eventually make me one. That is not to say that science fiction stories can be completely trusted as a source of specific knowledge... However, the misguidings of science fiction can be unlearned. Sometimes the unlearning process is not easy, but it is a low price to pay for the gift of fascination over science.”",
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                        "text": "“When you mix Science Fiction with Fantasy you don't have a pure genre, the two are, to a professional separate genres. I noticed today there is a tendency to mingle them, and then excuse the result by calling it imaginative fiction. Actually they don't mix well. Science Fiction, to be credible, has to be based on some degree of plausibility, Fantasy gives you no limits at all. Writing Science Fiction demands care on the part of the author, writing Fantasy is as easy as strolling in the park.”",
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                        "text": "“What?\" The dread in her tone told Rob she knew what. \"How much longer?\" \"Thirty seconds.\" She laughed with a panicked urgency. \"I just tried to nod. I can't feel my body, but I keep reaching for it, you know?\" Rob nodded, feeling guilty he was able to. \"How about this? I'll just tell you when I'm nodding, or shaking my head, or punching you.\" \"Oh, no,\" Rob laughed, \"are you planning on punching me often?\" \"We'll see.\" Rob couldn't help glancing at the timer, though he knew it would only make Winter more aware of what was about to happen. Seven seconds. \"I keep expecting this to get easier, taht it will start to feel as if I'm going to sleep. But it doesn't. Maybe it's not possible to get used to dying.\" Rob reached out to comfort her, then remembered it was forbidden and drew back. If not for the surveillance, Rob would have reached under the silver cover and taken her hand, cold and stiff as it would have been.”",
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                        "text": "“They construct billboards out in the sea, painted allegories adorn their facades, hawking sex and sentiment to the opulent, the fortunate of the people of fortune, who bury their dead in the sand where the light of heaven is closest at dawn, and farther and farther away at twilight.”",
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                        "text": "“Visionary fiction” is a term we developed to distinguish science fiction that has relevance toward building new, freer worlds from the mainstream strain of science fiction, which most often reinforces dominant narratives of power. Visionary fiction encompasses all of the fantastic, with the arc always bending toward justice. We believe this space is vital for any process of decolonization, because the decolonization of the imagination is the most dangerous and subversive form there is: for it is where all other forms of decolonization are born. Once the imagination is unshackled, liberation is limitless.”",
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                        "text": "“Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’ heating water and converting it to coffee; toasting bread; frying, poaching or scrambling eggs, grilling bacon, and so on. Breakfasts will be ‘ordered’ the night before to be ready by a specified hour the next morning. Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books. Synchronous satellites, hovering in space will make it possible for you to direct-dial any spot on earth, including the weather stations in Antarctica. [M]en will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better. By 2014, electroluminescent panels will be in common use. Ceilings and walls will glow softly, and in a variety of colors that will change at the touch of a push button. Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence. The appliances of 2014 will have no electric cords, of course, for they will be powered by long- lived batteries running on radioisotopes. “[H]ighways … in the more advanced sections of the world will have passed their peak in 2014; there will be increasing emphasis on transportation that makes the least possible contact with the surface. There will be aircraft, of course, but even ground travel will increasingly take to the air a foot or two off the ground. [V]ehicles with ‘Robot-brains’ … can be set for particular destinations … that will then proceed there without interference by the slow reflexes of a human driver. [W]all screens will have replaced the ordinary set; but transparent cubes will be making their appearance in which three-dimensional viewing will be possible. [T]he world population will be 6,500,000,000 and the population of the United States will be 350,000,000. All earth will be a single choked Manhattan by A.D. 2450 and society will collapse long before that! There will, therefore, be a worldwide propaganda drive in favor of birth control by rational and humane methods and, by 2014, it will undoubtedly have taken serious effect. Ordinary agriculture will keep up with great difficulty and there will be ‘farms’ turning to the more efficient micro-organisms. Processed yeast and algae products will be available in a variety of flavors. The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders. Schools will have to be oriented in this direction…. All the high-school students will be taught the fundamentals of computer technology will become proficient in binary arithmetic and will be trained to perfection in the use of the computer languages that will have developed out of those like the contemporary “Fortran\". [M]ankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and sociological consequences, and I dare say that psychiatry will be far and away the most important medical specialty in 2014. [T]he most glorious single word in the vocabulary will have become work! in our a society of enforced leisure.”",
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                        "text": "“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought and goes straight to the subconscious. Non-fiction uses the medium of information. It tells us what we need to know. Science fiction primarily uses the medium of physics and mathematics. It tells us how things work, or could work. Horror taps into the darker imagery of the psychology, telling us what we should fear. Fantasy, magic and myth, however, tap into the spiritual potential of the human life. Their medium is symbolism, truth made manifest in word pictures, and they tell us what things mean on a deep, internal level. I have always been a meaning-maker. I have always been someone who strives to make sense of everything and perhaps that is where my life as a storyteller first began. Life doesn't always make sense, but story must. And so I write stories, and the world comes right again.”",
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                        "text": "Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et cetera, taking them literally, not caring if they are possible or even plausible. It has no interest in or relation to real science or technology. It's fantasy in space suits. Spectacle. Wizards with lasers. Kids with ray guns. I've written both, but I have to say I respect science fiction enough that I wince when people call it sci-fi.",
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                        "text": "“Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here that the spy thriller and the crime story and the adventure story and the supernatural tale and the science fiction, however excellently written, must reside, sent to their rooms, as it were, for the misdemeanor of being enjoyable in what is considered a meretricious way. They invent, and we all know they invent, at least up to a point, and they are, therefore, not about 'real life,' which ought to lack coincidences and weirdness and action-adventure, unless the adventure story is about war, of course, where anything goes, and they are, therefore, not solid.”",
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                        "text": "“A história de todas as grandes civilizações galácticas tende a passar por três fases distintas e identificáveis: a da Sobrevivência, a da Interrogação e a da Sofisticação, também conhecidas pelas fases Como, Porquê e Onde. Por exemplo, a primeira fase é caracterizada pela pergunta \"Como vamos comer?\", a segunda pela pergunta \"Por que comemos?\" e a terceira pela pergunta \"Onde vamos almoçar?\".”",
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                        "text": "I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend the genre instead of saying, 'Horror is a bit passe so this is Dark Fantasy,' and that' s playing someone else's game. So that's why I say I'm a fantasy writer and to hell with 'It doesn't read like what I think of as a fantasy'. In that case what you think of as a fantasy is not a fantasy. Or there is more to it than you think.",
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                        "text": "I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own. But where I can get prickly and combative is, if I’m just called a sci-fi writer. I’m not. I’m a novelist and poet. Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.",
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                        "text": "“You have to think if we've been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He looks around, takes some pictures, then leaves without interacting significantly with the environment. Meanwhile the chimps have no idea what the fuck just happened.”",
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                        "text": "I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.",
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                        "text": "“To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it into the vast external cosmos, and away from all that introversion and introspection, that morbidly exaggerated prying into one's own vitals—and the vitals of others—which Robinson Jeffers has so aptly symbolized as \"incest.\" What we need is less \"human interest,\" in the narrow sense of the term—not more. Physiological—and even psychological analysis—can be largely left to the writers of scientific monographs on such themes. Fiction, as I see it, is not the place for that sort of grubbing.”",
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                        "text": "“there was a sort of embarrassment about storytelling that struck home powerfully about one hundred years ago, at the beginning of modernism. We see a similar reaction in painting and in music. It's a preoccupation suddenly with the surface rather than the depth. So you get, for example, Picasso and Braque making all kinds of experiments with the actual surface of the painting. That becomes the interesting thing, much more interesting than the thing depicted, which is just an old newspaper, a glass of wine, something like that. In music, the Second Viennese School becomes very interested in what happens when the surface, the diatonic structure of the keys breaks down, and we look at the notes themselves in a sort of tone row, instead of concentrating on things like tunes, which are sort of further in, if you like. That happened, of course, in literature, too, with such great works as James Joyce's Ulysses, which is all about, really, how it's told. Not so much about what happens, which is a pretty banal event in a banal man's life. It's about how it's told. The surface suddenly became passionately interesting to artists in every field about a hundred years ago. In the field of literature, story retreated. The books we talked about just now, Middlemarch, Bleak House, Vanity Fair -- their authors were the great storytellers as well as the great artists. After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. They were embarrassed. Embarrassment was the first consequence of the Fall. And embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. \"Am I telling a story? Oh my God, this is terrible. I must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's...\" So there was a great split that took place. Story retreated, as it were, into genre fiction-into crime fiction, into science fiction, into romantic fiction-whereas the high-art literary people went another way. Children's books held onto the story, because children are rarely interested in surfaces in that sort of way. They're interested in what-happened and what-happened next. I found it a great discipline, when I was writing The Golden Compass and other books, to think that there were some children in the audience. I put it like that because I don't say I write for children. I find it hard to understand how some writers can say with great confidence, \"Oh, I write for fourth grade children\" or \"I write for boys of 12 or 13.\" How do they know? I don't know. I would rather consider myself in the rather romantic position of the old storyteller in the marketplace: you sit down on your little bit of carpet with your hat upturned in front of you, and you start to tell a story. Your interest really is not in excluding people and saying to some of them, \"No, you can't come, because it's just for so-and-so.\" My interest as a storyteller is to have as big an audience as possible. That will include children, I hope, and it will include adults, I hope. If dogs and horses want to stop and listen, they're welcome as well.”",
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