Galaxies Quotes

“Consider Science Fiction, since its formal inception as a romantic subgenre in this country in 1926 with the publication of the first issues of Hugo Gernsbeck’s Amazing Stories has been known for its simple and melodramatic plots which demonstrates man’s mastery (or later on loss of control of technology”
― Barry N. Malzberg, Galaxies

“Thirty-Nine zero two. There has yet been no contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life, although humanity has colonized many planets and investigated several thousand more. This seemingly exclusivity of human intelligence baffles cosmologists and mathematicians while pleasing theologians.”
― Barry N. Malzberg, Galaxies

“But it can be said that the black galaxy not only repeats and intensifies time, but also compresses so that although seventy-thousand years are in one sense quite extended, in another, they are short enough for Lena all the various sensations of her various lives.”
― Barry N. Malzberg, Galaxies

“The material would indeed have to be handled carefully and with an awareness of how easily it might descend into riotous. Pain would have to be wrenched out of it; the reader would have to feel with the characters. Not only intellectual content but levels of the ambiguous would have to woven through less Galaxies become merely an attack upon the technological, a curse against the absurdity. Nothing, surely, could be further from the intent of the novel.”
― Barry N. Malzberg, Galaxies

“For how can this be? How can it be? That from all the Ridgefield Parks of our time we will assemble to build the great engines which will take us to the stars... and some of the stars will bring death and others will bring life and then there are those which will bring us nothing at all, but the engines will continue, they will go on forever.
And so, in a fashion, after our fashion, will we.”
― Barry N. Malzberg, Galaxies