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“Ray Bradbury’s entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror.” quote by Hal Duncan — Download Open image

““Ray Bradbury’s entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror.””

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“Susurrus whispers through the grass and gorse, godling of the Martian wind, gene-spliced tyke of Zephyros and Ares. His story needs no Ovid, tells itself in the rustle of striplings and flowers he loves, the tale that he is: a zygote collaged from: spermatazoa flensed to nuclear caducei; a mathematical transform by the Fréres Fourier, Jean and Charles, flip of…

“But the bigots always see those whom they hate as morally corrupt, as if they confuse their own aesthetics of disgust and fear with…

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“Susurrus is a different kind of flirt though, fickle as a godling of wind can only be but light and warm as one father, bold as the other. And his is a different kind of love, one that has lasted near as long as this world has now and stayed as fresh somehow, even in his flightiness. It is Susurrus…

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

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“One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it as a…

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I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence with an…

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Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

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“Cause what do groanhuffs know? All’s they’ve done is heard our tales and passed em along in a game of Chinese Whispers, getting em…

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The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.

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“I kissed the boys and made them cry ... in ecstasy.”

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“For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? ”

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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“Love. Such a sweet, simple word. A word I've been searching for my entire life - but especially since I met Eio - and I never knew it. Until ow. When I hear it on his lips, I know as I can never know anything else - no numbers, no formulas, no scientific names - I know it's true. A…

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

Johannes Kepler

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A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step…

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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

Zelda Fitzgerald

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