Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
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Paul Di Filippo
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.
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Paul Di Filippo
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
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Paul Di Filippo
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.
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Paul Di Filippo
We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arrive at something that would be far greater and more significant than...
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Clifford D. Simak
More Quotes By Larry Niven
There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. Every choice made by every man, woman, and child...
Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
Never fire a laser at a mirror.
Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.
