The New Space Opera 2 Quotes

“Don’t be afraid. Don’t wait. Don’t get caught. Just go. Go fast.”
― Gardner Dozois, The New Space Opera 2: All-New Stories of Scientific Adventure

“Art teaches us the things that reality can’t. Teaches us to live with the things that seem beyond endurance. Missed chances. Failed love affairs. Suffering and death—the stuff of actual life.”
― Gardner Dozois, The New Space Opera 2: All-New Stories of Scientific Adventure

“pain is pain and grief is grief. It might be inevitable, it might even be built into the nature of things, but it isn’t good, and it ought not to be tolerated, if there’s a choice.)”
― Gardner Dozois, The New Space Opera 2: All-New Stories of Scientific Adventure

“Lots of stuff. We were in a space race! First we were going to put a city on the moon and then spread out to fill the planets. But somehow, for no reason I can find, they just stopped. And look at these broadcasts. If these are at all up to date, then none of what they’d always promised ever happened. No jet packs. No flying cars. It’s a good decade past the year 2000, according to their calendar, but where did the future go?” “We can make jet packs for them,” Kyal said, trying to calm him. “It’s sort of a primitive device, but I suppose we could fabricate a few, if you want.” “That’s not the point,” Danny said. “It’s not what we could make for them, it’s about what they didn’t become. It’s like the entire history of Earth after I left was one giant broken promise.”
― Gardner R. Dozois, The New Space Opera 2: All-New Stories of Scientific Adventure