Category Archives: Science Fiction

No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, You cannot get back to seeing the part as the whole. –Ursula K. LeGuin, Four Ways to Forgiveness … Continue reading →

“I’m accusing you of violating the laws of nature,” he said, irritated at my failure to respond. “Nature’s virtue is intact,” I reassured him. “I just know some different laws.” Dialog between Lord Barton and Lanik Mueller, after the latter … Continue reading →

The hardest theme in science fiction is that of the alien. The simplest solution of all is in fact quite profound—that the real difficulty lies not in understanding what is alien, but in understanding what is self. We are all … Continue reading →

Why do so many people dislike science fiction? The answer goes like this: You have to think of science fiction in contrast to its nearest competitor, heroic fantasy. In heroic fantasy, by and large, things are pretty stable, and then … Continue reading →

For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter’s is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you’re trying to breathe liquid methane. … Continue reading →

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth? –Robert Charles Wilson, The Perseids and Other Stories (2001) Send to Kindle

Embrace your life, find what it is that you love, and pursue it with all your soul. For if you do not, when you come to die, you will find that you have not lived. –Jack McDevitt, Chindi, 2003 Send … Continue reading →