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title: "Short Science fiction Qoutes"
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> [“During my first few months of Facebooking, I discovered that my page had fostered a collective nostalgia for specific cultural icons. These…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-takei/during-my-first-few-months-of-facebooking-i-discovered-that-my-page/)

[George Takei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-takei/)

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> [“Anyone who is unimpressed with sneering atheism will be unimpressed by the famous science fiction works by Margaret Atwood or the fantasy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-c-wright-2/anyone-who-is-unimpressed-with-sneering-atheism-will-be-unimpressed/)

[John C Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-c-wright-2/)

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> [I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kage-baker/i-don-t-think-humanity-just-replays-history-but-we-are-the-same/)

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

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> [“Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rw-rivers/either-i-ve-got-a-wart-on-my-nose-they-find-curious-or-i-ve-grown-a/)

Rw Rivers

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> [ Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this \[atomic\] energy in a form which could be employed,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-william-aston/should-the-research-worker-of-the-future-discover-some-means-of/)

[Francis William Aston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-william-aston/)

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> [“My childhood dream came true, but now I have a new one. I dream that some of these young people, while they're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-massimino/my-childhood-dream-came-true-but-now-i-have-a-new-one-i-dream-that/)

[Mike Massimino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-massimino/)

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> [“We—humanity—didn’t come this far by being afraid. Explorers and visionaries have willingly headed off to certain death for thousands of years and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-s-jennsen/we-humanity-didn-t-come-this-far-by-being-afraid-explorers-and/)

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

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> [“The Ancestral Trail was split into two-halves of 26 issues each. The first half takes place in the Ancestral World and describes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-graves/the-ancestral-trail-was-split-into-two-halves-of-26-issues-each-the/)

Frank Graves

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> [“We say, "Well, the only answer is…" or, "If you would just. . . ." Whatever follows these two statements narrows the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-herbert/we-say-well-the-only-answer-is-or-if-you-would-just-whatever-follows/)

[Frank Herbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-herbert/)

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> [“From The Ghost Wars- on the concept of the Torah as ancient science fiction. “Take the story of the fall of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cole-j-davis/from-the-ghost-wars-on-the-concept-of-the-torah-as-ancient-science/)

Cole J. Davis

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> [“What sort of an imaginary voice is that? I asked myself, suppose Columbus had heard an imaginary voice telling him to sail…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/what-sort-of-an-imaginary-voice-is-that-i-asked-myself-suppose/)

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

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> [Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/science-fiction-as-i-mentioned-before-writes-about-what-is-neither/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

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> [“Everything was so much sharper without the Link fogging me--sights, sounds, smells. It was exhilarating and shocking and terrifying. I knew my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-anastasiu/everything-was-so-much-sharper-without-the-link-fogging-me-sights/)

[Heather Anastasiu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-anastasiu/)

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> [In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-van-allen/in-a-dispassionate-comparison-of-the-relative-values-of-human-and/)

[James Van Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-van-allen/)

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> [Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gerrold/who-are-we-and-to-me-that-s-the-essential-question-that-s-always-been/)

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

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> [ “I would like \[my readers\] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read \[my\] stories. I'd… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-wolfe/i-would-like-my-readers-to-better-understand-human-beings-and-human/)

[Gene Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-wolfe/)

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> [Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyle-hill/picking-apart-a-story-for-its-scientific-underpinnings-doesn-t/)

[Kyle Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyle-hill/)

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> [“I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/i-could-be-listening-to-painted-red-weave-the-stories-of-the-saints/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

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> [“You said these guys are your cousins? Is that, like, for real? It's, like, not a turn of phrase?" "What on earth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-speed/you-said-these-guys-are-your-cousins-is-that-like-for-real-it-s-like/)

[Mark Speed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-speed/)

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> [“He looks like a Miltonian angel falling with wrath and glory. His exoskeleton sheds its friction armor, as Lucifer might have shed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierce-brown/he-looks-like-a-miltonian-angel-falling-with-wrath-and-glory-his/)

[Pierce Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierce-brown/)

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> [“I had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on and take for granted...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-had-been-hobbled-perhaps-even-crippled-by-a-pervasive-internet/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [The computer has evolved into a partner, a tool, and an environment--not just in science fiction, but in the public consciousness as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gerrold/the-computer-has-evolved-into-a-partner-a-tool-and-an-environment-not/)

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

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> [In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/in-a-way-being-a-mormon-prepares-you-to-deal-with-science-fiction/)

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

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> [“I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93 million miles in radius -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-niven/i-myself-have-dreamed-up-a-structure-intermediate-between-dyson/)

[Larry Niven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-niven/)

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> [Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-pattison/of-course-it-s-always-difficult-to-disentangle-fact-from-fiction-in/)

[George Pattison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-pattison/)

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> [“(When I say cyborgs, I of course mean us.) ... (Some seem unaccepting in this transformation, and it indeed has been gradual.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-lim/when-i-say-cyborgs-i-of-course-mean-us-some-seem-unaccepting-in-this/)

[Eugene Lim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-lim/)

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> [“There were movies to go see at the Gem, which has long since been torn down; science fiction movies like Gog with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/there-were-movies-to-go-see-at-the-gem-which-has-long-since-been-torn/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [“But he doesn't see what's so great about leaving your mark on things. You have a life and then it ends and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-r-carey-2/but-he-doesn-t-see-what-s-so-great-about-leaving-your-mark-on-things/)

M. R. Carey

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> [All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-k-jemisin-2/all-people-who-grew-up-with-science-fiction-and-fantasy-and-horror/)

[N. K. Jemisin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-k-jemisin-2/)

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> [In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/in-all-the-known-history-of-mankind-advances-have-been-made-primarily/)

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

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> [“She feels him scoot closer, the heat of him radiating off his chest and absorbing into her skin. His legs straddle her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-kreitzer/she-feels-him-scoot-closer-the-heat-of-him-radiating-off-his-chest/)

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

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> [“The name Atlantis came from an old book Victoria had never read. A lifetime residency in the ASM paradise was rumored to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-r-smith/the-name-atlantis-came-from-an-old-book-victoria-had-never-read-a/)

[Benjamin R. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-r-smith/)

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> [I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-zelazny/i-worked-out-a-book-which-i-thought-was-just-straight-science-fiction/)

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

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> [“Her vision came into focus and again this time the trees crackled and mocked her. You’re going to die you silly bitch,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-cormack/her-vision-came-into-focus-and-again-this-time-the-trees-crackled-and/)

[Kim Cormack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-cormack/)

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> [“I will define science fiction, first, by saying what sf is not. It cannot be defined as "a story (or novel or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-will-define-science-fiction-first-by-saying-what-sf-is-not-it/)

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

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> [ When I read the script \[of Good Kill\], it read like a science fiction film. And Andrew \[writer/director Andrew Niccol\] is known… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-kravitz/when-i-read-the-script-of-good-kill-it-read-like-a-science-fiction/)

[Zoe Kravitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-kravitz/)

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> [“The perfect Queen of the SJWs – and she would be a queen, never a king – would be a mixed-race lesbian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vox-day/the-perfect-queen-of-the-sjws-and-she-would-be-a-queen-never-a-king/)

[Vox Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vox-day/)

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> [“The only social change presented by most SF has been towards authoritarianism, the domination of ignorant masses by a powerful elite—sometimes presented…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/the-only-social-change-presented-by-most-sf-has-been-towards/)

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

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> [“The principle of analogy is so simple, so natural, that everyone uses it in daily life. Imagine someone sitting down in front…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-price/the-principle-of-analogy-is-so-simple-so-natural-that-everyone-uses/)

[Robert M. Price](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-price/)

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> [“Hackworth took a bite of his sandwich, correctly anticipating that the meat would be gristly and that he would have plenty of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-stephenson/hackworth-took-a-bite-of-his-sandwich-correctly-anticipating-that-the/)

[Neal Stephenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-stephenson/)

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## Top authors on Science fiction

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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-orson-scott-card-72779.jpg) Orson Scott Card 19 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science-fiction/orson-scott-card/)
- [ ![](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": "“During my first few months of Facebooking, I discovered that my page had fostered a collective nostalgia for specific cultural icons. These started, unsurprisingly, within the realm of science fiction and fantasy. They commonly included a pointy-eared Vulcan from a certain groundbreaking 1960s television show. Just as often, though, I found myself sharing images of a diminutive, ancient, green and disarmingly wise Jedi Master who speaks in flip-side down English. Or, if feeling more sinister, I’d post pictures of his black-cloaked, dark-sided, heavy-breathing nemesis. As an aside, I initially received from Star Trek fans considerable “push-back,” or at least many raised Spock brows, when I began sharing images of Yoda and Darth Vader. To the purists, this bordered on sacrilege.. But as I like to remind fans, I was the only actor to work within both franchises, having also voiced the part of Lok Durd from the animated show Star Wars: The Clone Wars. It was the virality of these early posts, shared by thousands of fans without any prodding from me, that got me thinking. Why do we love Spock, Yoda and Darth Vader so much? And what is it about characters like these that causes fans to click “like” and “share” so readily? One thing was clear: Cultural icons help people define who they are today because they shaped who they were as children. We all “like” Yoda because we all loved The Empire Strikes Back, probably watched it many times, and can recite our favorite lines. Indeed, we all can quote Yoda, and we all have tried out our best impression of him. When someone posts a meme of Yoda, many immediately share it, not just because they think it is funny (though it usually is — it’s hard to go wrong with the Master), but because it says something about the sharer. It’s shorthand for saying, “This little guy made a huge impact on me, not sure what it is, but for certain a huge impact. Did it make one on you, too? I’m clicking ‘share’ to affirm something you may not know about me. I ‘like’ Yoda.” And isn’t that what sharing on Facebook is all about? It’s not simply that the sharer wants you to snortle or “LOL” as it were. That’s part of it, but not the core. At its core is a statement about one’s belief system, one that includes the wisdom of Yoda. Other eminently shareable icons included beloved Tolkien characters, particularly Gandalf (as played by the inimitable Sir Ian McKellan). Gandalf, like Yoda, is somehow always above reproach and unfailingly epic. Like Yoda, Gandalf has his darker counterpart. Gollum is a fan favorite because he is a fallen figure who could reform with the right guidance. It doesn’t hurt that his every meme is invariably read in his distinctive, blood-curdling rasp. Then there’s also Batman, who seems to have survived both Adam West and Christian Bale, but whose questionable relationship to the Boy Wonder left plenty of room for hilarious homoerotic undertones. But seriously, there is something about the brooding, misunderstood and “chaotic-good” nature of this superhero that touches all of our hearts.”",
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                        "text": "“Anyone who is unimpressed with sneering atheism will be unimpressed by the famous science fiction works by Margaret Atwood or the fantasy of Phillip Pullman and those of their ilk. Pullman was as blasphemous as Heinlein was in Stranger In A Strange Land, but not as funny, and the ending of his His Dark Materials was dark indeed and unsatisfying. (Pullman’s hero and heroine end up parted by a law of nature invented at the last minute by a lazy author, which decrees that persons of different earths in the multiverse sicken and die if they immigrate). It is the kind of thing one reads when a surfeit of happy endings leaves a bad taste in the mouth, and you need a swish of pagan vinegar to wash out all that Christian saccharine endemic to Western civilization. Everyone likes a vacation from happiness occasionally, I suppose.”",
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                        "text": "I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.",
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                        "text": "“Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station.”",
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                        "text": "Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction, but the remotest possibility must always be considered that the energy once liberated will be completely uncontrollable and by its intense violence detonate all neighbouring substances. In this event, the whole of the hydrogen on earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.",
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                        "text": "“My childhood dream came true, but now I have a new one. I dream that some of these young people, while they're out there clicking around, maybe they'll find out about this book and find a way to get their hands on it - and when they do, they'll know that even if you're a skinny kid from Long Island who's scared of heights, if you dream of walking among the stars you can do it. They'll know that finding a purpose, being dedicated to the service of others and to a calling higher than yourself, that is what's truly important in life. They'll be able to close their eyes and imagine what it's like in space, and when they open them again, they'll look up at the sun and the moon and the Milky Way and see them with the sense of awe and wonder that they deserve. And those young boys and girls, whatever their space dream is, they'll go for it. Whatever hurdles are in their way, they'll get past them. When they fall down, they'll get back up. They'll keep going and going, working harder and harder and running faster and faster until one day, before they know it, they'll find themselves flying through the air. The hand of a giant science fiction monster will reach down and grab them by the chest and hurl them up and up and up, out to the furthest limits of the human imagination, where they'll take the next giant leap of the greatest adventure mankind has ever known.”",
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                        "text": "“We—humanity—didn’t come this far by being afraid. Explorers and visionaries have willingly headed off to certain death for thousands of years and by doing so brought us to where we are today. No one has ever told us ‘no’ and succeeded in making it stick for long. We accede to these aliens’ demands and we’ll wither away. It may take centuries or even millennia, but we’ll be so busy cowering in fear we’ll forget to move forward. I say we fight.”",
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                        "text": "“The Ancestral Trail was split into two-halves of 26 issues each. The first half takes place in the Ancestral World and describes Richard's struggle to restore good to the world. After the initial international run, which sold over 30 million copies worldwide, Marshall Cavendish omitted the second part of the trilogy and used the third part (future) for the second series that followed. This part of the series, written up by Ian Probert and published in 1994, takes place in the Cyber Dimension. It deals with Richard's attempts to return home. Each issue centered on an adventure against a particular adversary, and each issue ended on a cliffhanger. The Ancestral Trail was illustrated by Julek and Adam Heller. Computer-generated graphics were provided by Mehau Kulyk for issues #27 through #52.”",
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                        "text": "“We say, \"Well, the only answer is…\" or, \"If you would just. . . .\" Whatever follows these two statements narrows the choices right there. It gets the vision right down close to the ground so that you don't see anything happening outside. Humans tend not to see over a long range. Now we are required, in these generations, to have a longer range view of what we inflict on the world around us. This is where, I think, science fiction is helping. I don't think that the mere writing of such a book as Brave New World or 1984 prevents those things which are portrayed in those books from happening. But I do think they alert us to that possibility and make that possibility less likely. They make us aware that we may be going in that direction.”",
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                        "text": "“From The Ghost Wars- on the concept of the Torah as ancient science fiction. “Take the story of the fall of the tower of Babel. Let’s say this represents not an act of God, nor a metaphor for this planet’s diverse linguistic heritage; but a catastrophic act of terrorism by the Divisionists to sever mankind from the neural net. The internet in this situation becomes mankind’s attempt to build a physical replacement for a natural ability long lost. Think of it as a wooden leg or a pacemaker.”",
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                        "text": "“What sort of an imaginary voice is that? I asked myself, suppose Columbus had heard an imaginary voice telling him to sail west. And because of it he had discovered the New World and changed human history... We would be hard put to defend the use of the term 'imaginary' then, for that voice, since the consequences of its speaking came to affect us all. Which would have constituted greater reality, an 'imaginary' voice telling him to sail west, or a 'real' voice telling him the idea was hopeless?”",
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                        "text": "Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven't been there yet. We haven't discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn't happened.",
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                        "text": "“Everything was so much sharper without the Link fogging me--sights, sounds, smells. It was exhilarating and shocking and terrifying. I knew my emotions had grown too strong. They were dangerous to the Community. They were dangerous to me. But still, I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live. And that meant that I couldn't give the glitching up. At least not yet. Just a little bit longer.”",
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                        "text": "Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are we in relation to them.",
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                        "text": "“I would like [my readers] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read [my] stories. I'd like them to feel that this was an experience that made things better for them and an experience that gave them hope. I think that the kind of things that we talk about at this conference -- fantasy very much so, science fiction, and even horror -- the message that we're sending is the reverse of the message sent by what is called \"realistic fiction.\" (I happen to think that realistic fiction is not, in fact, realistic, but that's a side issue.) And what we are saying is that it doesn't have to be like this: things can be different. Our society can be changed. Maybe it's worse, maybe it's better. Maybe it's a higher civilization, maybe it's a barbaric civilization. But it doesn't have to be the way it is now. Things can change. And we're also saying things can change for you in your life. Look at the difference between Severian the apprentice and Severian the Autarch [in The Book of the New Sun], for example. The difference beteween Silk as an augur and Silk as calde [in The Book of the Long Sun]. You see? We don't always have to be this. There can be something else. We can stop doing the thing that we're doing. Moms Mabley had a great line in some movie or other -- she said, \"You keep on doing what you been doing and you're gonna keep on gettin' what you been gettin'.\" And we don't have to keep on doing what we've been doing. We can do something else if we don't like what we're gettin'. I think a lot of the purpose of fiction ought to be to tell people that.”",
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                        "text": "“You said these guys are your cousins? Is that, like, for real? It's, like, not a turn of phrase?\" \"What on earth do you mean?\" \"Well, I refer to my bluds as cuz, sometimes. Is it like that, or is they real blood relatives?\" \"Yes, four of them are cousins. One of them is my twin brother. I'm sure you can guess who.\" \"Who?\" \"Yes.\" \"No, who?\" \"Exactly.\" The Doctor's gaze was in some far-off place, his voice low and monotone. \"He was always the troublesome one. He instigated the rift, cemented the separation. Blabbed to the Beeb. I can never forgive him for that. Never.”",
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                        "text": "“He looks like a Miltonian angel falling with wrath and glory. His exoskeleton sheds its friction armor, as Lucifer might have shed the fetters of heaven, feathers of flame peeling off, fluttering behind. Then a missile slashes the sky and high-grade explosives christen him mortal once again.”",
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                        "text": "“I had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on and take for granted... hit enter and let Google, that twenty-first century Big Brother, take care of the rest. In the Derry of 1958, the most up-to-date computers were the size of small housing developments, and the local paper was no help. What did that leave? I remembered a sociology prof I’d had in college - a sarcastic old bastard - who used to say, When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”",
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                        "text": "The computer has evolved into a partner, a tool, and an environment--not just in science fiction, but in the public consciousness as well. Computers are no longer malevolent iron brains that manufacture tyrannical and oppressive answers; they are not a way to think, they are a place from which to think. The computer is an environment in which answers can be sought, created, manipulated and developed.",
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                        "text": "In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.",
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                        "text": "“I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93 million miles in radius - one Earth orbit - around the sun. If we have the mass of Jupiter to work with, and if we make it a thousand miles wide, we get a thickness of about a thousand feet for the base. And it has advantages. The Ringworld will be much sturdier than a Dyson sphere. We can spin it on its axis for gravity. A rotation speed of 770 m/s will give us a gravity of one Earth normal. We wouldn't even need to roof it over. Place walls one thousand miles high at each edge, facing the sun. Very little air will leak over the edges. Lord knows the thing is roomy enough. With three million times the surface area of the Earth, it will be some time before anyone complains of the crowding.”",
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                        "text": "“(When I say cyborgs, I of course mean us.) ... (Some seem unaccepting in this transformation, and it indeed has been gradual. In a sense it began when the first simple machines were invented. But now, to deny the change requires a willful ignorance since, if you observe bodies clothed in steel flowing over highways, or how we've outsourced half our memory to these devices, these exobrains we carry around, and if you note how even our most intimate relationships occur remotely, at great distances from one another, if you see all this, well, it isn't such an original observation, dear cyborgs, to say that human and machine long ago merged inextricably.)”",
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                        "text": "I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I got an idea which I thought was kind of neat for working in a mythological angle. I'm really struggling with myself. It would probably be a better book if I include it, but on the other hand I don't always like to keep reverting to it. I think what I'm going to do is vary my output, do some straight science fiction and some straight fantasy that doesn't involve mythology, and composites.",
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                        "text": "“Hackworth took a bite of his sandwich, correctly anticipating that the meat would be gristly and that he would have plenty of time to think about his situation while his molars subdued it. He did have plenty of time, as it turned out; but as frequently happened to him in these situations, he could not bring his mind to bear on the subject at hand. All he could think about was the taste of the sauce. If the manifest of ingredients on the bottle had been legible, it would have read something like this: Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt, garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke, snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guinness Stout fermentation dregs, uranium mill tailings, muffler cores, monosodium glutamate, nitrates, nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes, nutrites, natrotes, powdered pork nose hairs, dynamite, activated charcoal, match-heads, used pipe cleaners, tar, nicotine, singlemalt whiskey, smoked beef lymph nodes, autumn leaves, red fuming nitric acid, bituminous coal, fallout, printer's ink, laundry starch, drain deaner, blue chrysotile asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.”",
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