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Book cover for The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence
From its beginnings, science fiction has been the mythic vehicle of one particular culture, the rational, materialistic, weigh-and-measure, science-and-technology minded culture that has arisen in Europe and America since the ...more
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Adam Roberts
“A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.”
Adam Roberts, Yellow Blue Tibia
tags: humor, sf

Duke Ellington
“I don't need time, I need a deadline.”
Duke Ellington

Elbert Hubbard
“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

Esther Perel
“Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?”
Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

Frederik Pohl
“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
Frederik Pohl

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