Masterpieces Quotes

“To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.”
― Orson Scott Card, Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century

“Press Enter_” or “The Persistence of Vision” you have to leave out five other stories? Even as it is, I had to leave out some of my very favorite writers and stories—Peter Dickinson’s “Flight,” for instance, and Felix Gottschalk’s “Vestibular Man,” David Bunch’s Moderan stories; and I’m dismayed at the list of writers not represented here—Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, Lucius Shepherd, Lois McMaster Bujold, Norman Spinrad, Clifford Simak, Vonda McIntyre, Octavia Butler, Dave Wolverton”
― Orson Scott Card, Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century

“The battered old DC 3 lay at the end of the runway like a tiny silver cross.”
― Orson Scott Card, Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century