Category Archives: Science Fiction

Einstein

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

The only thing I have in common with Albert Einstein is his birthday. We were both born on Pi day, March 14. Pi day? Pi is 3.14 plus additional digits that go on forever. Thus, the mathematically inclined have adopted … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on March 7, 2012 by

“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” – Spock, Star Trek, “Amok Time” Send to Kindle

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Quote for the Day

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life — much less intelligence — beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it’s written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

It is World War II and Madge Arwell is trying to hide from her children the awful news that their father, a British bombing pilot, was lost over the Channel during a bombing mission. It is Christmas Eve and she … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

“If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run – and often in the short one – the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.” –Arthur C. Clarke Send to … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

We contrast the urban and the natural, but that’s a contemporary myth. We’re animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as “natural” (whatever that word really means) as a termite hill or a rabbit warren. But how much … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on December 24, 2011 by

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. I knew a lot of writers in London and many of them were award-winning writers and many of them were award-winning, respectable writers. And … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

“If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,” she’d said, “we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.” –Jack McDevitt, Cauldron Send to Kindle

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