Austin Beeman

“How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol horde got bored?”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption—that an alien race would be psychologically human.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

“Your unique individuality seems a petty thing, less important by far than what connects you to everyone else.”
― Michael Pronko, Motions and Moments

“Through the vistas of the years every age but our own seems glamorous and golden. We yearn for the yesterdays and tomorrows, never realizing that we are faced with Hobson’s Choice … that today, bitter or sweet, anxious or calm, is the only day for us. The dream of time is the traitor, and we are all accomplices to the betrayal of ourselves.”
― Alfred Bester, Virtual Unrealities, The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester