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...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and enjoy it; joy i...more

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God's M.O., he reflected, is to transmute evil into good. If He is active here, He is doing that now, although our eyes can't perceive it; the process...more

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When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.

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You know, the way I feel, if I read a science fiction book by a new writer which is a lot better than what I do, instead of going on a bummer right aw...more

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Then the true name for religion,' Fat said, 'is death.''The secret name,' I agreed. 'You got it. Jesus died; Asklepios died - they killed Mani worse t...more

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A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.

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The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do...more

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Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, politi...more

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If this place were closer to Terra there’d be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The trees would be gone. There’d be old jet motors in ...more

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Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That's just desire. You want to have it around, take it h...more

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I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist of an sf story or novel ...more

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What sort of an imaginary voice is that? I asked myself, suppose Columbus had heard an imaginary voice telling him to sail west. And because of it he ...more

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Because of an imaginary voice, Nicholas had become a whole person; rather than the partial person he had been in Berkeley. If he had remained in Berke...more

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It’s not just the drive. They’re right out front. Everywhere. Waiting for me. All day and night.”“Who are, dear?”“Robots selling things. As soon as I ...more

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Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might commun...more