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"City of Vassillian a party of five sage princes with four horses. The princes, who are of course brave, noble and wise, travel widely in distant lands, fight giant ogres, pursue exotic philosophies, take tea with weird gods and rescue beautiful monsters from ravening princesses before finally announcing that they have achieved enlightenment and that their wanderings are therefore accomplished. The second, and much longer, part of each song would then tell of all their bickerings about which one of them is going to have to walk back. All this lay in the planet's remote past."
"Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures."
"You have terminated me, one of them said in a strange, flat voice. "But Iam one of many."Robots! Iggy breathed, taking Total from Angel."One of many, one of many, one of many, the robot Eraser was saying. NowNudge saw the red light in its eyes, saw how they were fading and winking out."Good! spat the Gasman, kicking it hard. "Because we like to blow stuff up,blow stuff up, blow stuff up!"
"It's like you're averse to adventure."
"Endless seas, mean endless adventures."
Explore more quotes by John M. Ford
"The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues."
"There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't."
"There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves."
"People tell me they laughed hard enough to wake their spouses, that they've given away numerous copies to friends, and that it's the one Trek book they'll give to people they wouldn't expect to like others."
"I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made."
"I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading."
"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."
"The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations."
"The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating."
"At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe."
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