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John Sladek

"I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world."

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"I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world."

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Amber Hurdle

"It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."

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"Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe."

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"The brain is both an emitter and a receiver of many forms of electromagnetic energy. There are fields of various forms around all living things, some we know about and others have yet to be documented."

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"People who have metal implants should be familiar with the symptoms of radio wave sickness and should keep their environment free of wireless radiation producing products."

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"Mankind willfully changing the global electromagnetic radiation environment has created what I expect will become known as the man-made evolution era."

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"Snow cleaning of the world's largest telescope mirrors was an impressive sight. The optics technicians would climb into a huge telescopic boom lift and spray immense clouds of cold carbon dioxide snow and gas onto the ten meter diameter mirrors high above the floor indoors. It would cause some of the accumulated dirt to magically fall off, leaving it less dirty."

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Amber Hurdle

"After six months of building muscle mass I can now confirm that muscle mass creates increased tolerance to biologically harmful radiation sources."

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"It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving."

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"The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality."

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Amber Hurdle

"Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?"

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"People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers."
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"I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read."
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"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive."
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"To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example."
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"I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear."
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"I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection."
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"Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything."
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"Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing."
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"This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read."
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"In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God."
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