Category Archives: Science Fiction

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world. –Neil Gaiman, Signal to Noise Send to Kindle

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions? –Robert A. Heinlein Send to Kindle

With a mental effort, he grabbed hold of his thoughts and braked them to a stop. There was something new here, factors he hadn’t counted on. He kept reassuring himself there was an explanation for everything, once you had your … Continue reading →

He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand. And the fact of the matter was that he had just barely understood enough to make … Continue reading →

A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest … Continue reading →

Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the … Continue reading →

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. –Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Send to Kindle

Don’t give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero’s facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when … Continue reading →