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A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.
Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.
To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.
Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.
Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variations to be spun down through decades.
Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.
The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert Heinlein's 1942 tale 'Beyond This Horizon.'
Scientists require apparatus, but mathists splendidly require only writing tools and erasers. Better, philosophers do not even need erasers
Fandom grew first through individual correspondence. It was cheap and quick, continent-wide contact for a penny stamp.
In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.
Every professor secretly thinks that what the world needs is a good, solid lecture
from him, of course.
from him, of course.
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.
Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.
It seemed stupid to be pursued on foot like Homo sapiens sapiens of a hundred thousand years before.
Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.
We've got two parties." "No you do not. You have only the party of the banks, of the money men, and they divide it into two pieces for your voting.
True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled connection between twins is true in my case.
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As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.
In your country the munitions makers ride in their limousines and prepare their wars, while the workers cannot afford new shoes.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, thought as a child, behaved as a child. But when I became a woman, I put away manly things.