Mike Ashley > Quotes

“If rules make a framework for the mind to climb about in, why should the mind not climb right out?”
― Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Black Magic

“Those that can, do; those that can’t, teach; and those that can’t teach, administrate.”
― Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction

“clear as a pikestaff.”
― Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy

“How and why sub-quark wave events are captured and read, how they let us view the past, and why they show us only possible pasts, is difficult to explain. So instead of a technical lecture, I’m going to engage in what popular science journalists call “oversimplification”. In academia, we call this “lying”.”
― Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction

“Then Ellie found herself sitting at a table in the bar of the Algonquin Hotel, back in New York City. Nadine was sitting opposite her.”
― Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF

“Probably the master of the time-dislocation story was J. G. Ballard. His view, evident in much of his short fiction, was that time was degrading and this resulted in”
― Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF

“great machine, stripped of her last coverings, poised on the greensward”
― Mike Ashley, Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories

“scientists were men, and I’d just get married. I believed him, until I discovered Sara Baxter Clarke in one of those old magazines. She was British, went to MIT, had her doctorate in theoretical physics at twenty-two. At Berkeley, she published three brilliant articles in very, very obscure journals. In 1956, she was scheduled to deliver a controversial fourth paper at an international physics conference at Stanford. She was the only woman on the program, and she was just twenty-eight.”
― Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF

“right, until he found just the right words – not too difficult words, but words with some fire and juice in them.”
― Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF

“Sitting there in the saddle, the thing explained itself as I looked. The fallen pillar had been built upon older ruins; all Egypt is that way, ruin founded on the ruin of ruins—like human hopes.”
― Mike Ashley, Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories

“proof of Leibniz’s theory of Pre-established Harmony: that neither atoms nor human beings really affect each other; they just look as if they do.”
― Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF

“I can’t tell a psychophyte – what is it?” “Psilophyte,” said Gilzow. “I can’t tell a psilophyte from creamed spinach. To me, a trilobite’s just a waterlogged pillbug. And it doesn’t matter what time period I’m in, meteorology’s the same here as it is back home. Trade winds blow from the east, a high-pressure system’s still – everything’s different for the rest of you.” “Not for me and Bonnie,” said Holmes. “Rocks is rocks.” “Still.” Ovington gestured at the”
― Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF

“No hay infierno peor que el de un habito del que no puedes librarte”
― Mike Ashley, Notturno: Dark Tales. La serie gotica della British Library

“shacked up with the pilot man, right? And this one: They were all transfigured by higher beings: *STENDEC* Val Garner, presenter of Impossible,”
― Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF

“There was nothing to be gathered from her letter, more than that he was low and nervous. In those words, of which healthy people think so lightly, what a world of suffering is sometimes hidden!”
― Mike Ashley, Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories

“Don’t mind the mess,” he said jovially, seeing Norton still hovering uncertainly by the door. “The whole house is like this, I’m afraid. Never could stop accumulating stuff. Never could throw anything out. My wife used to say I’d been a jackdaw in my previous lives. That’s why I didn’t leave, you know. I couldn’t start off again somewhere else without all this. Sometimes I think there’s more of me here—” his gesture took in the room, and the other rooms beyond it – “than here.” He tapped the side of his skull.”
― Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF

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― Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF