#fiction

I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#science

I dare to speak to you. The first thing you should have known? Halíka Dacomé belongs to no man. Least of all me. - Nerído Xipilé ↗

— Alexandra May

#science-fiction-romance #war #science

I knew I would stay in this town when I found the blue enamel pot floating in the lake. The pot led me to the house, the house led me to the book, the book to the lawyer, the lawyer to the whorehouse, the whorehouse to science, and from science I joined the world. ↗

— Leslie Daniels

#fiction #science

Where was this written? I wondered. Where in the Talmud or the Koran or the Bible did it say, "Lo, and Satan fetcheth the coffee for the Antichrist and her minions"? ↗

— Lyda Morehouse

#science

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays! ↗

— Dan Abnett

#science

The courier of wolves the daughter the dance. Hopeless. Betrayal. Forbidden. Departure. ↗

— C.J. Redwine

#science

We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#realize #science-fiction #science

...the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised. ↗

— Alastair Reynolds

#science

JOH! Thank God I found you.” “I have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them? ↗

— Maureen A. Miller

#science-fiction #young-adult #science

Meanwhile here I am- Earthborn woman, a mere barbaric maula, geting deeper into Imperial Space with each passing light second. I should be trembling with fear, I suppouse. No. Let the Emperor tremble. Laylah is here! ↗

— Robert Silverberg

#space-opera #science