David Gatewood > Quotes

“promises”
― David Gatewood, The Telepath Chronicles

“Coober Pedy”
― David Gatewood, The Alien Chronicles

“Would we be able to lay our preconceived notions aside and meet this new species with respect, honor, and an open mind? Given the history of our planet, I would say no.”
― David Gatewood, The Alien Chronicles

“To live was to absorb a shadow of everything that he encountered and use it to improve himself. Unlike”
― David Gatewood, The Robot Chronicles

“NGOs”
― David Gatewood, The Alien Chronicles

“because progress looks like a glitch, and it can’t be copied or reproduced. At”
― David Gatewood, The Robot Chronicles

“Let’s just hope the right people are in charge when those aliens do decide to pay us a visit.”
― David Gatewood, The Alien Chronicles

“The sadness felt familiar, felt normal.”
― David Gatewood, The Alien Chronicles

“Cthulhu”
― David Gatewood, The Alien Chronicles

“perky.”
― David Gatewood, The Alien Chronicles

“Agoraphobia”
― David Gatewood, The Alien Chronicles

“I was falling in love with her, in a Desdemona-crying-over-Othello’s-war-wounds kind of way.”
― David Gatewood, The Alien Chronicles

“The top floor of the complex belonged to the offices of Kesselring, the founder and chairman of Cognix. Even the master of synthetic reality liked to keep his specific reality positioned above everyone else’s. As he passed through the level, Dr. Granger stopped for a moment to enjoy the view of Atopia from a thousand feet up: semi–tropical forests, capped by crescents of white beaches; the frothy breakwaters beyond.”
― David Gatewood, The Robot Chronicles

“in literature—no matter the genre—accomplishes this one thing for those readers who give themselves over to it. It takes them on a journey through time and space and includes them in the story.”
― David Gatewood, Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel

“History is never the literal truth, Gee,” Patton said. “It’s just the truth we need it to be.”
― David Gatewood, Tales of Tinfoil: Stories of Paranoia and Conspiracy

“So, according to Einstein (Finney says), time is more like a river that flows along, and the only reason we sense it passing is because we’re like bein’ on a boat on that river. So you pass a tree and then it’s behind you, and unless you get off the boat or find some other method to do so, you can’t go back to that tree you saw awhile ago. But (and this is the trick) everything you’ve passed in time is still back there. Still just like it was. That tree is still back there and always will be. So just by gettin’ off the boat, you think you’ve traveled in time, when in reality you just got off and stayed in one moment of it. None of it makes sense to me, I’m just tellin’ you the way it was explained in the books. Finney went on to describe a method of time travel that he believed would actually work. First, you have to disconnect yourself from the millions of little threads of reality that grasp you and hold you in your boat (in your present time, moving forward). These threads are all realities in the time you belong in, not in the time way back before they existed. And get this (since we were talkin’ about trees): when you see a tree every day, its growth and passage through the seasons is part of it bein’ in the boat of time with you. You’re movin’ together to the future. But say you wanted to see that tree when it was still a sapling! You’d have to get off the boat of time and go visit it back where it was, and not where it is in the mobile now (“mobile now” is my phrase, not Finney’s). In a tree’s growth and maturity, it’s a thread holding you into the mobile now too. So the threads belong to a point in time (or to the mobile now), and you have to sever all those, even in your brain, so’s you can go back to another time. Next, you got to immerse yourself in the time you want to be in. Everything has to be perfect. You have to have the right dress, the right money, the right environment. It all has to be just right. Now, even if you can do these two things, and even if you can get your mind convinced completely, only a tiny percentage of the population could ever do it. If the person’s mind isn’t suggestible enough to make the leap, they won’t ever go. The tiny threads of the mobile now in their minds will hold them in the boat, so to speak. But… if someone can do these things… if someone can totally immerse themselves in the time they want to visit, and they can really believe they are sometime else… then they can do it.”
― David Gatewood, Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel

“What did it mean for him to make the choice to leave her there? Had he just failed the Turing test of his own humanity?”
― David Gatewood, The Robot Chronicles

“Write short, write long, write experimental… write anything! Then put it out there and see how readers respond.”
― David Gatewood, The Alien Chronicles

“generalized fluidic and crystallized measures of logical and linguistic intelligence;”
― David Gatewood, The Robot Chronicles

“All of these wars are just tools used to manipulate people into accepting things they wouldn’t accept otherwise.”
― David Gatewood, Tales of Tinfoil: Stories of Paranoia and Conspiracy

“Such is the relationship between scientists and engineers and science fiction authors—we feed each other inspiration, the scientists and engineers use this to go and build the world, while the authors use this to tell the world what’s coming and to inspire a new generation of world-builders.”
― David Gatewood, The Robot Chronicles

“Sir, how do I put this …?” “Just out with it!” he demanded, annoyed that his moment had been frustrated. “Well, sir, I’ve already met my maker … whereas you …”
― David Gatewood, The Robot Chronicles

“Shimmer by Matthew Mather”
― David Gatewood, The Robot Chronicles

“He felt lost, as if he had a parser malfunction, as if the world were one giant syntax error.”
― David Gatewood, The Robot Chronicles

“Where”
― David Gatewood, Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel

“Our future may indeed be roses, or it may be extinction, but only one thing is certain: the journey there is going to be unpredictable and far more remarkable”
― David Gatewood, The Robot Chronicles

“If information isn’t driving a belief, information will not change that belief.”
― David Gatewood, Tales of Tinfoil: Stories of Paranoia and Conspiracy

“All of them running about, putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun. You come away lost.” Of”
― David Gatewood, The Robot Chronicles

“We’ve reached the point where imitation is indistinguishable from invention. Next”
― David Gatewood, The Robot Chronicles

“You travel dozens of light years to get to Earth only to suffer from stifled creativity when naming your super secret moon base?”
― David Gatewood, The Alien Chronicles