Harl whirled round, all his attention. . on Skulker. "What is that on your carapace?"" What?" Skulker tried to peer back.. A tinny voice issued from somewhere.. It took Skulker a moment to recognize it as that of the human male he earlier encountered. "It's CTD gecko mine - yield of about five kilotones." Skulker's shriek terminated in a blast that peeled back four square kilometers of jungle canopy and sunk a crater down to the bedrock. Neal Asher
On the surface, I was calm: in secret, without really admitting it, I was waiting for something. Her return? How could I have been waiting for that? We all know that we are material creatures, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and not...
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We all know interspecies romance is weird.
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Tim Burton
I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.
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Mindy Kaling
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
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Douglas Adams
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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More Quotes By Neal Asher
Try to think like a human, ’ said Gant, lolling in one of the club chairs.‘ Why should I restrict myself so severely?
Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence persisted–a discussion point in the nature vs nurture debate which had not died in half a millennium.
Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called ‘pigheadedness’.
It all came back to human time and utterly human impulses: in the end, gods did not appreciate godlike power, but humans did.
It seemed that, after contact with a few human generations, sand hogs would begin to understand human speech. The irony was that after coming to understand their riders fully, the beasts often ended up abandoning them and heading off into the wilderness.
