Action Quote by David Brin

Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts

— James Nicoll

“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing…

— Karl Schroeder

Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. He is…

— Marilynne Robinson

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

— Robert J. Sawyer

In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully unflinching honesty…

— Madison Smartt Bell

No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world,…

— Anonymous

What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow…

— Jean Rostand

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we…

— Denis Diderot

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

— William Gibson

“He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' not by the help of mechanical instruments,…

— William Hazlitt

“The thoughts of Man build future worlds, whilst the emotions of the Fey build up this, our Natural World.”

— Gabriel Brunsdon