Hard Science Fiction Quotes

“No, Krish . . . we’re not playing God. We’re only attempting to set things right.”
― Clyde DeSouza, Maya

“Live your life. Don’t subscribe to other people’s ideals because this is what happens. One way or another, it will crush you.”
― Sarah Mazza, I Dream in Color

“How long does it take for two armies to destroy each other when one has an abundance of bodies and the other an abundance of bullets?”
― Sarah Mazza, I Dream in Color

“I never thought I would choose a place like this. That I would even consider giving up my existence, to lie in a bed of lies. I never expected a lot of things to happen in my life. I try not to think about anything at all. Especially not how I become this; a man without hope. A man without dreams.”
― Sarah Mazza, I Dream in Color

“My name is Alex Johansson, and I am a man who chose this. I chose to give up my body. To become lost in a dream. To never wake up again. Except that I did.”
― Sarah Mazza, I Dream in Color

“Angelo," he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia - the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain - and waking.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“Here was the same sense of awe and mystery, and the sadness of the irrevocably vanished past. Yet the scale here was so much greater, both in time and in space, that the mind was unable to do it justice; after a while, it ceased to respond. Norton wondered if, sooner of later, he would take even Rama for granted.”
― Arthur C Clarke

“Everyone asks me how I got started into writing. I wish I had some cool story to tell, but the truth is pretty lame. My wife and I were having a drink on our back porch and I mentioned a concept I'd been mulling over. She suggested that I write it down, and so I figured I'd make a few notes and get it out of my system. No matter how I tried though, it just wouldn't let me write it in any other way than a story. Believe me when I say I tried, but 63,000 words later I realized that I needed a chart to track the plot and personas to maintain character consistency. So I just gave up and let it write itself from that point on.

As far as I'm concerned at this point, I'm just hanging on and trying to keep up.”
― Jason Faris, Transitions

“It could sometimes be alive and dead at the same time in its bounded but expanding domain. It experienced both conditions and simply didn’t like dead. Death was a complex issue for it.”
― John Macgregor, False Vacuum: Apocalypse

“Harvest" is a deep and meaningful exploration of the complexities regarding the origins of the human race as well as the intentions of an alien species.”
― Readers' Favorite

“I’m writing these words on February 28th, barely two months after the event. At least I think I am.

I can’t be sure when, or even if, it actually happened. Or what really took place.

Then again: what is truth, if infinitely many truths can exist at the same time?

But let me start from the beginning.”
― Andrzej Wronka, The Last