“As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent.”
― Bloodchild and Other Stories
― Bloodchild and Other Stories
“At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow footpath of what "everyone" is saying, doing thinking - whoever "everyone" happens to be this year.”
― Bloodchild and other Stories
― Bloodchild and other Stories
“History was an artist, maintaining the idea but changing the details, like a composer keeping the same theme but dulling it to a minor or lifting by an octave, now crooning it with violins, now blaring it on trumpets.”
― Earth Abides
― Earth Abides
“Between the plan and the fulfillment stands always the frail barrier of a human life.”
― Earth Abides
― Earth Abides
Benjamin’s 2025 Year in Books
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