I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other...

First of all, time travel per se does not exist. 'Travel' implies that you choose both your destination and when you come back. It's more a 'time shot,' a 'time through.' But it's definitely not time...

Upon seeing the third and final table, I realized that most of the people listed would most likely be dead, or come out of these qualifying races with severed limbs, or as Revaarn liked to say, 'Lose...

Theo's already on his way. Paul might be too, but communications have been down for so long, I don't know. "Heading out here with a storm like this coming in? That's madness." Dad sighs. "Then again,...

Rosewater was twice as smart as Billy, but he and Billy were dealing with similar crises in similar ways. They had both found life meaningless, partly because of what they had seen in war. Rosewater,...

The front edge of the shockwave impacts the earth and you're both shoved to your backs against the crumbling asphalt of the parking lot, and then crushed into oblivion as the Earth, along with every...

Mia stood between the bed and the broken window, holding an active plasma blade at waist - height in front of her. A thick coat of blood stained the plasma nearly from hilt to tip, hissing as it...

I don't want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly, because I...

What's a horse doing on a spaceship? What's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Mickey, get a little perspective!" Dr. Who "The Girl In The Fireplace"

So, what's the status?" said Ira as he pulled himself down to his couch. "Will is turning into a starship," Hugo replied, clearly only half in jest. "We're about to watch history in the making."

Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

Increasingly–and mirroring what was happening in American politics–Heinlein would attract single - issue or single - novel admirers. Starship Troopers was just the first inkling of this.

Justine watched two azure moons traverse the sparkling smear of Wall stars. They were in very strange orbits. And moving impossibly fast – actually accelerating. 'Oh my God,' she gasped. The Raiel's...

I shrugged. I saw a Star Trek episode one time that was along those lines. All the women on this whole planet end up naked. I can't remember exactly, but I think Captain Kirk gets turned into a pipe...

She just witnessed her own murder.

From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely,...

Stupid races don't build spaceships!

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me... only he's an imbecile.

"Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the center of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the...

I found myself wondering how the Empire had the technology to make long-distance holographic phone calls between planets light-years apart, and yet no one had figured out how to make a...

The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3...

A voice spoke in his head, mellow and vast: "Who's there?" he quavered. "Who are you?" "Malfunction! Malfunction!" squalled the scouter. "Shut up, it's not a malfunction. Who's talking to me?" The...

The bronze rider of Mnementh, Lord F'lar, will require quarters for himself. I, F'nor, brown rider, prefer to be lodged with the wingmen. We are, in number, twelve. F'lar liked that touch of F'nor's,...

Motherfucker," Amos said again, this time without the heat. Holden knew him well enough to know that angry Amos was not nearly as dangerous as cold Amos. "I was thinking I'd have a tough time spacing...

Keel-mounted rail gun,

The thing Alex Kamal liked most about the long haul was how it changed the experience of time. The weeks - sometimes months - spent on the burn were like stepping out of history into some small,...

Nothing with meat inside it could outrun metal and silicon.

the taste for Victorian-era sci-fi futures is more than anything else a nostalgia for the last moment, before the carnage of World War I, when everyone could safely feel a redemptive future was...

She'd headed the terraforming teams, and it was her leadership which had carried the task through to success. She and her people, watched over by Kau - yung's flagship, TFNS Gulliver, had battled the...