Thomas Beek

“He reached forward and answered it. “Hey, Will.” “Hi, Clay.  I wake you up?” “No.  I was just sitting here wondering why we don’t talk more.”
― Michael C. Grumley, Catalyst

“They secretly thought that Krsna must not be an ordinary boy, but some demigod.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

“The stories in this anthology touch on a variety of sci-fi themes, but they all have something in common: They are about things that concern all of humanity, and the challenges and crises they depict are all things humanity faces together. In fact, when you read or make science fiction, your sympathy automatically moves away from ideas of ethnicity and nation and toward a higher idea of humanity as a whole; from this vantage, humanity naturally becomes a collective unit, rather than an assembly of different parts divided by ethnicity and nation.”
― Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

“During those five hundred years, the engines would consume half of the mountains on the Asian continent as fuel.”
― Liu Cixin, The Wandering Earth