“In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover, clink-clank. Steam was rising from an excavation at the corner. The world was like a puzzle with half… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the… — Damon Knight Copy Share
It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
“If you are miserable and ill, I can understand why you would not want to live a long time. But if you are happy… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not memorable they… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
“In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover, clink-clank. Steam… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
