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“Two there shall be; no more, no less. One to embody the dark side, the other to crave it.”
― Path of Destruction
― Path of Destruction
“Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.”
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“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”
― How To Write Science Fiction
― How To Write Science Fiction
“Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently.”
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“No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it's meant to go. And when it turns up, there's a bloke in it called The Doctor and there will be stuff wrong and he will do his best to sort it out and he will probably succeed 'cause he's awesome. Now sit down, shut up, and watch 'Blink'.”
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SF Masterworks Group
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This is a group dedicated to the wonderful SF Masterworks collection published by Orion (via the Gollancz brand.) It contains some of the genre's defi ...more
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