Christopher Broschell > Quotes

“ease. He walked under a bright summer sky, over sunlit fields and through little groves that danced and whispered in the wind. The houses of men were scattered here and there, the houses which practically took care of themselves; over beyond the horizon was one of the giant, almost automatic food factories; a few self-piloting carplanes went quietly overhead. Humans were in sight, sun-browned men and their women and children going about their various errands with loose bright garments floating in the breeze. A few seemed to be at work, there was a colorist experimenting with a new chromatic harmony, a composer sitting on his verandah striking notes out of an omniplayer, a group of engineers in a transparent-walled laboratory testing some mechanisms. But with the standard work period what it was these days, most were engaged in recreation. A picnic, a dance under trees, a concert, a pair of lovers, a group of children in one of the immemorially ancient games of their age-group, an old man happily en-hammocked with a book and a bottle of beer— the human race was taking it easy.”
― Christopher Broschell, Legends of Science Fiction: Robot Edition

“This would expose them, no doubt, to obloquy from many ignorant persons.”
― Christopher Broschell, Legends of Science Fiction: Volume 3

“One you’ve probably read, for the man was J. W. Dunne. “In his first book, ‘An Experiment With Time,’ Dunne tells how he once dreamed that he was sitting at the controls of a curious flying machine with swept-back wings,”
― Christopher Broschell, Legends of Science Fiction: Volume 2

“The number of works of fiction staggered the imagination. Writers broke off into “schools”; the “schools” subdivided like amoebae. Little cliques arose, usually geographically circumscribed, to carry the banner “Art pour l’Art.” And they, too, sank into the quagmire, and still the robot presses rolled. There were uncounted millions of volumes: none could or dared make a selection of the fifty, hundred, or even thousand best: there was no vest-pocket bookshelf guaranteed to produce excellence in all affairs human and divine.”
― Christopher Broschell, Legends of Science Fiction: Robot Edition