Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.
I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.
Escape is a consumer goods like another
It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting - corruption and favoritism, mostly- endemic to the system.
Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a disaster?" -"Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.
What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.
I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.
In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do with souls or physical or spiritual possession; it was, as the Idirans well understood, the behavouristic copying of another which revolted. Individuality, the thing which most humans held more precious than anything else about themselves, was somehow cheapened by the ease with which a Changer could ignore it as a limitation and use it as a disguise.
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