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“Sentience without senses. Blind, deaf, nerveless, moveless. Some irritability, response to touch. Response to sun, to light, to water, and chemicals in the earth around the roots. Nothing comprehensible to an animal mind. Presence without mind. Awareness of being, without object or subject. Nirvana. (p. 517)”
― Sheila Finch, Myths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction: Ancient Roots of the Literature of the Future

“It makes genuine three-dimensional poetry possible for the first time in history. Right now he’s experimenting with motion added, and some of the things he’s turned out are hair-raising.”
― John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar

“Chiang Kai-shek understood the magnitude of Japan’s blunder. Upon learning of the attacks, he celebrated by playing “Ave Maria” on his gramophone.”
― S.C.M. Paine, The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949

“What manner of creature are you?” asked the tall man. Something whirred deep in the recesses of Chandler’s mind. “A man,” he said at last. But he knew he was not.”
― Isaac Asimov, 101 Science Fiction Short Stories