“
I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to stop.
”
”
Therisa Peimer (Taming Flame)
“
We all know interspecies romance is weird.
”
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Tim Burton
“
Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?"
"I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?
”
”
Therisa Peimer (Taming Flame)
“
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
”
”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Born of Shadows (The League, #4))
“
A celestial wizard doesn’t destroy celestial bodies. She bends them.
”
”
Andri E. Elia (Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel)
“
Ketal is not hell! It’s the K’tul homeworld. What is the difference?
”
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Andri E. Elia (Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel)
“
Sunny, a silver boy of nine, daydreams of rescuing two princesses: “The princesses’ savior was a gallant knight. No! A prince! The valiant prince was surprisingly young. And silvered.
”
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Andri E. Elia (Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel)
“
We Yandar are winged. We don’t succumb to adversity; we fly with it.
”
”
Andri E. Elia (Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel)
“
He shredded my wings with his words.
”
”
Andri E. Elia (Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel)
“
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.
”
”
Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass)
“
A ray of sunlight poked through the mass of angry clouds.
”
”
Gabriel F.W. Koch (Steel Blood)
“
Everyone on Earth knows there’s no love as strong as a mother’s love.
”
”
Steven Decker (Child of Another Kind)
“
Later, I would understand more fully how deep and enduring the love of a mother for her child can be, but at that time, I just knew she felt something coming, something dangerous.
”
”
Steven Decker (Child of Another Kind)
“
Night vision. Unclip your bows. Ready. Fly.”
”
”
Andri E. Elia (Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand)
“
I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid."
- Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532
”
”
Anne Rice
“
HANG THE LAW AND FUCK THE RULES! Where is your love for others? Where is your compassion? All these warriors want is a chance to serve. Doesn’t their love supersede your rules?
”
”
J.B. Lion (The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity)
“
What If I still want to go?" "Then you'll go," he said. "But I wanted you to know the danger." "There's always danger." His green eyes met mine. I was starting to see It, how It could happen-Caleb and me.
”
”
Anna Carey (Eve (Eve, #1))
“
Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation of a really basic idea. He's a good guy. He loves us. He will not stop in defending us. How beautiful is that? He's like a sci-fi Jesus. He'll never let you down. And only in fiction can that guy actually exist, because real guys will always let you down one way or another. We actually made up an idea that beautiful. That's just cool to me. We made a little paper universe where all of the above is true.
”
”
Grant Morrison
“
I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn't sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn't the point.
”
”
Joanna Penn
“
I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?
”
”
Wayne Gerard Trotman (Veterans of the Psychic Wars)
“
What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.
”
”
Ursula K. Le Guin
“
Don’t do anything harsh, Arrov,” I say. “You’ll kill him!”
Callum smirks. “No, he won’t.”
“Yes, he will,” Teague says.
”
”
S.G. Blaise (True Teryn (The Last Lumenian, #2))
“
His wife waved him farewell with a smile but, deep down, she had to admit that sometimes, when the night was dark and the winds stopped singing, she regretted ever meeting him, and that was true love.
”
”
Daniel Cuervonegro (Sins of the Maker)
“
Who knew that you would be The One," I smile, "which I guess makes me your Trinity."
"My Amidala."
"Your Zira."
"My Sylvia."
"Your..." I scour my brain, trying to remember some other great sci-fi love interest.
"Ha! I'm your Saphira," I settle back smugly, only for Trevor to start laughing.
"Saphira is a dragon.
”
”
Cindy C. Bennett (Geek Girl)
“
We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn't, why would there be so many of them? There's something attractive about all those people being gone, about wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging cans of Campbell's pork and beans, defending one's family from marauders. But some secret part of us thinks it would be good to survive. All those other folks will die. That's what after-the-bomb stories are all about.
”
”
John Varley
“
I don't want to die without telling you that I love you," Everett's voice was a faint, wavering whisper, and his lips swollen and bloodied. "I always have.
”
”
Belle Whittington (Cicada (Cicada, #1))
“
I love sex. I love thinking about it, I love doing it, and I love the feeling I get afterwards.
”
”
Crystal Raven (Virtual Mirrors: First Journal)
“
If I could describe myself, I'd say that I am a poetic gerd. (A geek and nerd combo) I love Shakespeare and romance, but sci-fi and action have a big slice of my heart. When I meet a man who can quote some Hitchcock out of thin air, do a perfect ''Timey Whimey'' impression, play me some classic rock when I'm sad and can give a 'Gone with the Wind' kiss, I will have my soul mate.
”
”
Melanie Kay Taylor
“
I know your fingertips will love gliding across the silk, from my toes all the way up my thighs, teasing what lies just beyond, before claiming it as yours.
”
”
Crystal Raven (Virtual Mirrors: First Journal)
“
No, I don't party; no, I don't dress in black leather and chains; that's not my style. That's how I was raised. I worry about getting good grades and I go to church and I watch sci-fi movies and I generally follow the rules. Most people would call me a geek or a nerd. You've called me that many times. But that isn't everything that defines me. I mean, look at me, sitting here in a rainstorm under a tree that's probably going to kill us when the lightning hits it, holding the hand of a pretty cool girl who really is the opposite of me, a girl that I happen to be in love with. A girl I couldn't have imagined would want to be with me. But here she is, letting me hold her hand, trying to tell me why she isn't good enough for me. That's crazy.
”
”
Cindy C. Bennett (Geek Girl)
“
He’s a lovely guy, but there’s no spark between us whatsoever. It just goes to show, that even with all their fancy assessment tools, the government can’t legislate for chemistry.
”
”
Siobhan Davis (True Calling (True Calling #1))
“
This choice you make, if it’s real, born out of the love your mother left for you and your family deserves, if it’s made by the part of you that can only be honest, even when facing death, yours will be a life worth the world and everything in it. If this is the Erelim you’ll become, my Cae, then your failures and sins, your misgiving and crimes, will never stop me from loving you.
”
”
Daniel Cuervonegro (Sins of the Maker)
“
Because I am miserable and so viciously in love with her, I eat the soup.
”
”
Zoe Hana Mikuta (Gearbreakers (Gearbreakers, #1))
“
My soul lightened as I realized I could help her. I rolled her body flat, like Grandpa taught me. I swept my finger inside her cold mouth to make sure her breathing passage was open, and I placed my mouth on hers, carefully pinching her nose, and breathed life into her lungs.
Betsy stirred, sputtered a cough, and opened her eyes.
“Now you kiss me?” she said, so weakly I could barely hear her.
”
”
Darin C. Brown (The Taste of Despair (The Master of Perceptions, #3))
“
I loved him, but he didn't want me anymore.
I suffered, and he laughed at my umanity.
This desire will be my end.
”
”
Sabrina Benulis (Archon (The Books of Raziel, #1))
“
I can't explain my feelings for him...they're strange. But he says it is why we are so much alike, why I dream of him. He calls it The Craving.
”
”
Nadège Richards (Deceiving Destiny (Bleeding Heart, #2))
“
Ceri loves Sci-Fi - " Game of Thrones "
also - Harry Hole , Lisbeeth Salander, Funky Scando Fiction, Supports Swans, Nirvana,
”
”
Jo Nesbø
“
«“Looks like your sci-fi prediction came true right away, Xavier.”
“That can be gratifying,” mused the novelist. “But not all the time.”»
”
”
Bruce Sterling (Love is Strange)
“
Memories and emotions could be the greatest form of torture.
”
”
A. Petrov
“
Loving someone means making sacrifices for them.
”
”
Ted Chiang (The Lifecycle of Software Objects)
“
«I love both her and them. I have come to understand that she is what they are. A woman accepts a man, expecting that he will change. A man takes a woman, expecting that she will never change. They are both disappointed. Yet within this very disappointment is the primal source of all new men and all new women»
”
”
Bruce Sterling (Different Kinds of Magic)
“
Raising a child puts you in touch, deeply, inescapably, daily, with some pretty heady issues: What is love and how do we get ours? Why does the world contain evil and pain and loss? How can we discover dignity and tolerance? Who is in power and why? What’s the best way to resolve conflict? If we want to give an AI any major responsibilities, then it will need good answers to these questions. That’s not going to happen by loading the works of Kant into a computer’s memory; it’s going to require the equivalent of good parenting.
”
”
Ted Chiang (The Lifecycle of Software Objects)
“
It wasn't premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it.
”
”
Milly Silver (Into the Dark, Vol. 1 (Into the Dark, #1))
“
And it is a strange thing about love... it is that it can take a strength that would seem otherwise insignificant and transform it into a hardly quenchable power.
”
”
Steven J. Carroll (Worlds Unending (The Histories of Earth, #4))
“
Where there is great love there is great harmony of thought.
”
”
Wayne Gerard Trotman (Veterans of the Psychic Wars)
“
No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
”
”
Catherynne M. Valente (Radiance)
“
Human activity has brought my kind to the brink of extinction, but I don’t blame them for it. They didn’t do it maliciously. They just weren’t paying attention. And humans create such beautiful myths; what imaginations they have. Perhaps that’s why their aspirations are so immense. Look at Arecibo. Any species who can build such a thing must have greatness within them. My species probably won’t be here for much longer; it’s likely that we’ll die before our time and join the Great Silence. But before we go, we are sending a message to humanity. We just hope the telescope at Arecibo will enable them to hear it. The message is this: You be good. I love you.
”
”
Ted Chiang (The Great Silence)
“
In the beginning," Scripture taught, "there was the Word," and Danny would come to believe that the two great gifts his God had given to the species He loved were time, which divides experience, and language, which binds the past to the future.
”
”
Mary Doria Russell (Children of God (The Sparrow, #2))
“
If I got to pick anyone, anyone at all, to be stranded on a deserted planet with, it would be you, I always want to be with you. And not just... not just to talk to. When you touch me... I don't want you to stop.
”
”
Stephenie Meyer (The Host (The Host, #1))
“
Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine? We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralysed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it. The Machine develops — but not on our lines. The Machine proceeds — but not to our goal. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.
”
”
E.M. Forster (The Machine Stops)
“
Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer's dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let bad tragedies be censured by those who love tragedy, and bad detective stories by those who love the detective story. Then we shall learn their real faults. Otherwise we shall find epics blamed for not being novels, farces for not being high comedies, novels by James for lacking the swift action of Smollett. Who wants to hear a particular claret abused by a fanatical teetotaller, or a particular woman by a confirmed misogynist?
”
”
C.S. Lewis (Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories)
“
Thank you father, thank you. I know you watched me from above and protected me. I promise I shall serve the Magnarian Confederation with all my body and soul. I shall dedicate myself fully to our confederation, the family that you so loved. And I love it too. I shall protect, love and respect it always. This is my promise and commitment. Thank you
”
”
Chayada Welljaipet (War Between Two Powerful Nations)
“
And if you lose the willingness, what do you have?
”
”
Sabrina Benulis (Archon (The Books of Raziel, #1))
“
The death has an only color.
”
”
Sabrina Benulis
“
each man braces his fear against his love. What you love may change. But if you love still, your fear remains
”
”
Gordon Dahlquist
“
Any male who uses brutality on a weaker female who has no chance of defense is a coward.
”
”
Laurann Dohner (Loving Zorn (Zorn Warriors, #1-2))
“
She was no helpless female – never had been. She was death clothed in a body of female allure and fiercely proud of it.
But in sex, she needed the surrender. She craved a man strong enough to take the control out of her hands. I hunger to be dominated, for someone who doesn’t see me as a ball-busting female. She would yield everything to a man masterful enough to command her obedience. But she had never found one strong enough – or discreet enough. It wouldn’t do for the Blue Daggers to know their commander wanted domination during sex. Most of all, she had never found anyone she could trust with her desires who didn’t try to crush her – body and soul. Disappointment had followed disappointment until she had quit looking. To find strength paired with sensitivity, or dominance tempered with love? It didn’t seem to exist.
”
”
Patricia A. Knight
“
Readers of history may decide that joking while two guys are driving around through a town that has recently been slaughtered by six-foot-tall praying mantis beasts with shark-tooth-studded arms is in poor taste.
It is.
But that is exactly what real boys have always done when confronted with the brutal aftermath of warfare.
”
”
Andrew Smith (Grasshopper Jungle)
“
Join me for a moment in trying to imagine a life so rich and varied that you cannot remember shooting an actress at a sci-fi convention while wearing a tribble costume and then being wrestled to the ground by a security team.
”
”
Claudia Christian (Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction)
“
«“So, Sally, what’s new around here?”
“Jeff Bezos just sold off two million shares.”
“So, why would our sci-fi paperback bookseller need to sell that much Amazon stock?”
“I think Jeff needs the cash for his private space rocket.”»
”
”
Bruce Sterling (Love is Strange)
“
In many ways sci-fi is a natural progression from the magical worlds we inhabited as children. Speculative fiction opens up parallel universes to which we can escape and exercise our love for all things beyond our ken. close off these speculative worlds at your peril.
”
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Ella Berthoud (The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You)
“
In my experience, a lot of the boys who are real computer-heads tend to be pale-skinned sci-fi fans. Not that there’s anything wrong with that—I happen to be a pale-skinned sci-fi fan myself—but that doesn’t mean I have to fancy other seethrough geeks.
So let’s hope Adam isn’t as picky as me.
”
”
Kate le Vann (Things I Know About Love)
“
We won’t let them take us,” he vowed.
Ava cupped his face in her hands. “I love you, Jak’ri.”
Dipping his head, he brushed his lips against hers in a tender caress. “I love you, too. More with every breath I take.”
Desire flared to life as she drew him down for another kiss, this one deeper, hotter, and pulse-poundingly arousing. “Make me forget,” she pleaded, between teasing strokes of her tongue. “Make me forget everything but us and the way I feel when I’m in your arms.
”
”
Dianne Duvall (The Purveli (Aldebarian Alliance, #3))
“
I need the money, people are very coy about money, and the ladies arent just coy, they are sci fi about money…
…people ask, well, dont sweet things happen? yes, indeed, many sweet things, but sweet doesnt keep you from dying, making love doesnt keep you from dying unless you get paid, writing doesnt keep you from dying unless you get paid, being wise doesnt keep you from dying unless you get paid, facts are facts, being poor makes you face facts which also does not keep you from dying.
”
”
Andrea Dworkin
“
An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap-works. Partnership was a voluntarily constituted federation like any other. So long as it worked, it worked, and if it didn't work it stopped being. It was not an institution but a function. It had no sanction but that of private conscience.
”
”
Ursula K. Le Guin (The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia)
“
My fingers find his. They are warm, pulsing with genetically altered blue blood, powered by mirror matter.
”
”
Georgia Clark (Parched)
“
Lemme tell you a Titan truth. An hour ago, you were a virgin," he declared.
"Yes, of course," I confirmed. In his possessive dream world. I loved being a part of that world.
”
”
Misty Kayn (Alien Fae Mate)
“
The day is crisp and clear, almost like every other morning he's taken the same walk in the snow, hiking to the forest and back.
”
”
M.C. Frank (No Ordinary Star (No Ordinary Star, #1))
“
He loved the idea of paper, how the ink would fade and the paper would age. So finite, he would explain, just like life.
”
”
Maura Milan (Ignite the Stars (Ignite the Stars, #1))
“
I’m a realist. Optimism and pessimism are both skewed. It’s not hard to balance all the factors. What’s difficult is measuring how much weight to assign to minor details.
”
”
Zaayin Salaam (With Love, From Planet B: A Sapphic Spiritual Sci-Fi Fantasy Speculative Novel)
“
He wanted to blame the books, the sci-fi, but he couldn’t—he loved them too much.
”
”
Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)
“
Words wouldn’t come, so I used my body to show her. And if she didn’t understand that I loved her, then I’d show her again tomorrow.
”
”
Amanda Bouchet (Starbreaker (Endeavor, #2))
“
And I am sure that in the end, love is what will save us all.
”
”
Casey Waldam (Worldcatcher: A Young Adult Sci-Fi (Book 1))
“
There was nothing funny about the situation, but I laughed anyway. I'd done the same thing during Grandpa Andy's funeral. Busted out laughing right during Father Diaz's opening prayer. I apologized to Gamma Evelyn afterward, and she told me it was okay. That life was ridiculous and absurd, and sometimes the only way to keep it from overwhelming us was to laugh right in its face.
”
”
Shaun David Hutchinson (A Complicated Love Story Set in Space)
“
And those who have read the trilogy tend to number it among the unapproachables—just some of those books that are simply too strange and fantastical and, well, weird to really like. I love this series deeply, but I still relate to those people. On the surface, the Ransom Trilogy bears the marks of a sci-fi adventure. But then there are all those philosophical passages, and there’s an awful lot of time spent just talking on Perelandra, and then Merlin (of all people!) shows up and don’t even get started on Mr. Bultitude… It is for these people—indeed, for my former self—that I have written this book.
”
”
Christiana Hale (Deeper Heaven: A Reader's Guide to C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy)
“
She pulls a spare head from beneath a pile of shoes and raises it by the hair. It looks like one of those cheap, blue heads that botwhores keep for lonely sci-fi freaks who want to pretend they’re fucking the queen of Xenon.
”
”
Judd Trichter (Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction)
“
Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error. At sixty-eight, I hope I've gained some wisdom in the past fourteen lustrums and it’s obligatory to speak plain and true about the conclusions I've come to; now that I have been educated to believe by such mentors as Wells, Stapledon, Heinlein, van Vogt, Clarke, Pohl, (S. Fowler) Wright, Orwell, Taine, Temple, Gernsback, Campbell and other seminal influences in scientifiction, I regret the lack of any female writers but only Radclyffe Hall opened my eyes outside sci-fi.
I was a secular humanist before I knew the term. I have not believed in God since childhood's end. I believe a belief in any deity is adolescent, shameful and dangerous. How would you feel, surrounded by billions of human beings taking Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy and the stork seriously, and capable of shaming, maiming or murdering in their name? I am embarrassed to live in a world retaining any faith in church, prayer or a celestial creator. I do not believe in Heaven, Hell or a Hereafter; in angels, demons, ghosts, goblins, the Devil, vampires, ghouls, zombies, witches, warlocks, UFOs or other delusions; and in very few mundane individuals--politicians, lawyers, judges, priests, militarists, censors and just plain people. I respect the individual's right to abortion, suicide and euthanasia. I support birth control. I wish to Good that society were rid of smoking, drinking and drugs.
My hope for humanity - and I think sensible science fiction has a beneficial influence in this direction - is that one day everyone born will be whole in body and brain, will live a long life free from physical and emotional pain, will participate in a fulfilling way in their contribution to existence, will enjoy true love and friendship, will pity us 20th century barbarians who lived and died in an atrocious, anachronistic atmosphere of arson, rape, robbery, kidnapping, child abuse, insanity, murder, terrorism, war, smog, pollution, starvation and the other negative “norms” of our current civilization. I have devoted my life to amassing over a quarter million pieces of sf and fantasy as a present to posterity and I hope to be remembered as an altruist who would have been an accepted citizen of Utopia.
”
”
Forrest J. Ackerman
“
The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time.
”
”
Frank Herbert
“
Love. Yes. That’s what I feel for you. Your smile makes me happy and your pain makes me hurt with you. Your unhappiness makes me unhappy. Your body makes me ache and you make me hard with need to be inside you. You are always on my mind and when I am not with you, I want you with me.
”
”
Laurann Dohner (Burning Up Flint (Cyborg Seduction, #1))
“
Do you know why the lotus is one of my favorite flowers?" I cocked my head to one side so I could see his expression.
He shook his head.
"This beautiful flower lives in the most vile, muddy water of swamps and bogs," I said and rubbed the smooth metal of the pendant between my fingers.
He frowned.
"No, seriously... the grosser the environment, the better," I said.
"So let me get this straight. You like a flower that lives in disgusting places?" One of his eyebrows rose. "That ain't right."
"No, I love this flower," I corrected.
He glanced at me out of the corner of his eye, "Seriously?"
"What?" You don't believe me?"
"Sure, I believe you. It's just weird."
"I'll tell you why, but only if you promise not to laugh," I said.
He nodded.
Taking a cleansing breath, I rested my head against the seat, closed my eyes, and took that scary first step.
"This flower stays in the mud and muck all night long."
I peeked at him without moving my head. His face had become set in the smooth lines of one who listens intently.
"Then, at sunrise, it climbs toward the light and opens into a pristine bloom. After the sun goes down, the bloom sinks into the mire. Even though it spends the whole night underwater, the flower emerges every morning as beautiful as the day before." Smiling, I swiveled in my seat to face him. "I love this flower because it reminds me that we get second chances every day, no matter what muck life drags us through.
”
”
K.D. Wood (Unwilling (Unwilling #1))
“
The first thing anybody tells you about this business is to say what makes you unique and different, but I couldn’t and the very idea of it never sat well with me and after much deliberation, I finally realized why.
Because, I’m not unique or different–I’m exactly like you and I love that.
We each have a unique filter through which we interpret the world, and with this filter in place, I write stories and songs and you might find them surprising or intriguing or confronting, you may relate or you may not. They may make you laugh and sometimes, even cry.
You may or may not understand what I’m trying to say and you may not understand me, however, rest assured, once we get past the filters, at our core, we are wonderfully and beautifully, exactly the same.
”
”
Connie Lansberg (The Perfect Tear)
“
...that the true protagonist of an sci-fi story or novel is an idea and not a person. If it is good sf the idea is new, it is stimulating, and, probably most important of all, it sets off a chain-reaction of ramification-ideas in the mind of the reader; it so-to-speak unlocks the reader's mind so that that mind, like the author's, begins to create. Thus sf is creative and it inspires creativity, which mainstream fiction by-and-large does not do. We who read sf (I am speaking as a reader now, not a writer) read it because we love to experience this chain-reaction of ideas being set off in our minds by something we read, something with a new idea in it; hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create -- and enjoy doing it: joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness.
”
”
Philip K. Dick
“
Will insisted in interviews—not that I’d read any of them. Well, all right, I might have skimmed one or two—that his books were tragic love stories. But not romance novels. Oh, no. Definitely not that! Because he was a man, and most male authors of adult books would slit their own throats before admitting they’d written a romance or women’s fiction or even a family drama. Everything they wrote, many of them insisted, was literary fiction (unless of course it was sci-fi, horror, or mystery). So nauseating.
”
”
Meg Cabot (No Words (Little Bridge Island, #3))
“
«All the Amazon guys around Seattle were also aware of the trend. They all knew that, someday, European haute couture would sell online. The problem was that feat couldn’t be done by anybody from Amazon. Because Amazon guys were hacker geeks and cheesy hicks. Amazon had been invented to sell sci-fi books. The least chic thing in the world.
The European couture biz would never go anywhere near a dorky sci-fi geek like Jeff Bezos. As for Jeff himself, Jeff would much rather conquer outer space with his private rocket than ever dress the First Lady of France.»
”
”
Bruce Sterling (Love is Strange)
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Well, no, Sister Brannigan was the one putting her name on the checks to the cemetery. Someone else was making the deposits into her personal account.” “But now that she’s gone?” “I suppose the Neapolitan benefactor will have to find someone else if he wants to remain anonymous.” Bree snorted, “For a second I thought maybe it might be Bernardo.” “Well, why not? I mean, a little bank fraud isn’t likely to keep my father up at night,” Alessandro said. “But he’s in New York,” Bree reminded him. “Geography, darling?” Alessandro asked amused. “You say that with such pride it scares me,” Bree said rolling her eyes. “I love you too,” Alessandro smiled. “But no. If he was, why let us go off on this whole journey?” “It’s Bernardo. If there’s something I’ve learned about your father it’s that the rules of logic don’t apply to him. Or any other kind of rules,” Bree added, “Maybe this is all some kind of big elaborate plan and we’re gonna go home and find out he’s been keeping Francesca and Adriano frozen in his basement in one of those sci-fi freezers that they say you can buy and use to come back to life in a hundred years.” Alessandro shook his head at her, not impressed with her sense of humour.
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E. Jamie (The Betrayal (Blood Vows, #2))
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Jak’ri had admired how she’d handled captivity, the way Ava had conquered her fears again and again, the sense of humor she hadn’t abandoned in favor of despair. He’d been grateful for the reprieves she’d granted him from his own captivity in dreams, treasuring the moments of freedom they’d shared at Runaka Point. And he respected the intelligence she had repeatedly exhibited both back on the ship and here on this alien world.
He studied her from the corner of his eye. She’d pulled her long hair back in what she called a ponytail that slid this way and that across the top of her pack. Little tendrils had escaped and danced around her pretty face as a faint sheen of moisture glistened on her forehead.
Jak’ri’s heart thudded in his chest. Since becoming an adult, he had wondered periodically what having a lifemate would be like, if experiencing that depth of emotion and caring would change him in some way.
His parents’ union was a loving one, full of laughter, affection, and teasing. Throughout his life, his mother and father had shared a closeness that he’d begun to wonder if he would ever find himself, since past lovers had failed to engender those emotions in him.
But now he knew. Now he understood.
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Dianne Duvall (The Purveli (Aldebarian Alliance, #3))
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I smile broadly, feeling as warm and full as the sun.
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Georgia Clark (Parched)
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I open my eyes, and we’re in the air. Like, literally in the air. Our chair is floating at the top of the sixteen-foot ceiling near the chandelier. The rest of the room, bed, nightstands, books, lamps, are up here with us, whirling around as if with a mind of their own.
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Yolanda Hatcher (Ascension Volume I: Part I)
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She gazed into my eyes, lips parting, beautiful. In that moment, she seemed to glow, for she did not know it yet, but she was falling in love. All of her vital signs pointed to it.
“Come for me,” she whispered. “I want to feel you inside me. Breed me like an animal.
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Penelope Woods (Primal (Alpha Unknown, #1))
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According to the old black and white sci-fi films he'd loved as a child, the only reason that aliens would come to earth was to warn them that humanity's warlike intentions would one day threaten the other planets. He was almost sure he'd seen the scene in some classic film.
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Peter Bailey (Kings Of This World)
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You are afraid for him. Love is not when you are aroused by someone, it's when you are afraid for that person. And you will never be able to forgive that kid, Yegor.
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Marina Dyachenko Sergey Dyanchenko
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You can turn off sex, and you can turn off romantic love-but it’s really hard to turn off all the human emotional responses to a powerful individual without also turning off your humanity.
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Elizabeth Bear (Ancestral Night (White Space, #1))
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Come in, baby,” Gloria said, and embraced me. We couldn’t save Roger, but Gloria had saved me a dozen times over. Not enough for her peace of mind, I knew that, but enough for me to feel the debt, which was love, for the rest of my life.
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Kit Rocha (Chaos and Cosmos Sampler, Part 1: Chaotic new sci-fi and fantasy from Tor and Tor.com Publishing)
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One scratch on Amy, and there'll be earthquake in Italy!
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Abhijit Naskar (Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction)
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She and her kisses
It was Saturday afternoon,
The Summer Sun shone bright,
And there she was as usual basking in the casual moments of the noon,
While I stood there looking at her beautiful face in the Summer light,
She turned sideways and sometimes I could only see her back,
And as her locks of hair descended downwards from her shoulders,
I could witness in the daylight the magic of the beautiful black,
It was a beautiful sight for all heavenly and earthly beholders,
To see her splendor of beauty humble the Summer light,
And what made her even more beautiful was her ignorance of this fact,
That she was brighter than the summer light and during the night she was the envy of moonlight,
And with time she seemed to have a secret pact,
For the afternoon sun had now set behind the horizon of dusk,
But she and her beauty were still embalmed by a mysterious eternal light,
That charged at the keeper of time like the ferocious tusk,
And guarded her beauty like the most devout knight,
When she finally stood up and left the place,
I followed the trail of her scent, her shadows and her feet,
And there I saw her enter a grand palace of grace,
The residence of beautiful innocence made radiant by acts of kindness that nothing can defeat,
Because time and beauty are the gatekeepers of this place,
Where she sleeps and renews her youth, her charms and her sensitive acts of tenderness,
Then in a moment she vanishes behind the veil of sleep without leaving any trace,
On the fleeting moments of time, so nobody knows how she attains this beautiful grace of absolute calmness,
Maybe it is her ability to look at men and women differently,
For no matter who she comes across she greets them genuinely,
And offers them a smile of kindness fondly,
And it is these acts, small insignificant acts of kindness that flash on her face so beautifully,
That is why I love her, even if it means looking at her from the distance,
Because I seek not that smile of kindness that she offers to all,
I love to be with her and feel that secret romance,
That has enslaved time to her commands and makes her the most beautiful woman of all,
Someday when the sun has set and the moonlight is bright,
And she travels in her dreams into the kingdom of time and eternity,
There I shall be her dream, to be so then every night,
And then that is what I shall love to be her and my eternity,
Where she kisses me,
And we lie cocooned in the shell of love,
With time winding its silk strings around me,
As she kisses me like the rain drops of love,
Then as the silk cocoon of time preserves us both,
I shall confess to her, under the afternoon Sun,
That for her I was the moth,
That died a billion times just to let her face, be the beauty’s eternal Sun,
So she owes me a moment of love, with a billion kisses,
And as she agrees we both shall sleep in the cocoon of time together,
Nothing to separate us, not even light, we shall then grow as a grand feeling of love thriving on kisses,
And grow in the cocoon of eternal time where love and kisses shall be the only weather.
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Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
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You , I and Winter Weary Flowers!
Those winter weary flowers; do you remember?
Kissed by their unseen admirer, their redeemer,
Who warms them with her kiss of hope and love,
Having waited for eternity and risen like a phoenix from above.
Helping them escape beyond time and its every zone,
Into that unknown realm in that so distant zone,
Where you and I can go too,
But only if our hearts beat as one, though two!
Throbbing in one rhythm every today and tomorrow,
In pain, in joy and in every sorrow,
Because they have that memory patch to rejoice in,
A feeling of love that I long to be immersed in.
With you. Tell me would you?
For I long to tread with you,
Holding your sun kissed hand,
Alongside that dancing and jocund flower band.
That shall be our rabbit in Alice’s wonderland,
Where I shall never leave your hand,
When I witness beauty never seen before,
I promise I shall only love you more than ever before,
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Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
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Love and aspirations!
Let me take you behind the rainbow,
And show you the colours of love,
Let me make you wet with my feelings of love,
As every droplet of my colourful feelings kisses you behind that rainbow.
Let me borrow some colourful mist from the butterfly,
And sprinkle it on your soul,
Let me love you whole including your soul,
As you become the envy of every butterfly.
Let me take you to the garden of roses, lavenders and other beautiful flowers,
And love you like careless lovers,
Let us be those carefree and self indulgent lovers,
As I secretly endow you with the beauty of all these flowers.
Let us stand at the banks of the noisy rivulet,
And flow with its hastiness in one direction,
Let you be the sea and I will be the river flowing in this direction,
As you and I become the part of the happily and always rushing rivulet.
Let me take you to a place where it is always morning,
And let the dew fall on your soul and quench you,
Let you be the pasture of million grass blades as the dew drops kiss you,
As you witness the wave of pleasure engulfing you , then only for you let me be this morning.
Let me take you to the distant valley where the shepherdess sings a beautiful song,
And you try to be her melody,
Let me then be the every note of this melody,
As you get drawn towards the mesmerising song.
Let me make you sit before my mirror long enough,
And fill myself just with your visual imaginations,
Let there be no memory left in me except your imaginations,
As I love you today Irma may it be till eternity, and yet not enough!
Let me feel your bright body and deep eyes, under the sun,
And I shall love you in presence of this universe,
Let me kiss you , to feel you and to remember you just like this universe,
As sometimes under the moonlight I feel you are my warmth and my only sun!
Let me love you forever,
Although loving is brief but forgetting is an infinite loop of time,
So, let me love you Irma till the end of time,
Because we were born for each other and to be together forever.
Let me now take you to the pinnacle of hopes, dreams and beautiful aspirations,
And you decide if you wish to push me into the abyss of nothingness,
Let me tell you though, I shall find you even in that nothingness,
Because as we both stood in front of the mirror, I hope you remember, my reflection was a representation of your beauty and aspirations!
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Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
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You me and our love!
There she was,
In the calmness of the morning,
Yes there she was,
Spreading her presence in ways mesmerising and charming,
As her beauty hung everywhere now,
Here, there, to be everywhere,
I felt a world of beauty it was now,
Where I belonged only with you somewhere,
Now she was in the daylight as well,
The light, the day and she,
Beauty that was covering everything so well,
That I felt the entire universe was nothing, but her deep eyes and she,
And in this interplay of lights and your beauty, I wondered where I was,
Then I discovered that with you I too was everywhere my love,
For now Irma, everything that there was,
It was you, me and our love!
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Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
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Let Me Irma!
Like the sun beams dancing over summer flowers,
Let me wake up in your mind at all hours,
Like a thought that never subsides,
But as an adorable feeling it within you always resides,
Let me flash as a feeling of joy over your senses,
My darling Irma, I want to take my chances,
For who knows what might happen tomorrow,
So I wish to live every moment of joy before I experience a moment of sorrow,
Let me embrace you like the daylight,
Which is around you always, though you do not feel its grasp tight,
Like this let me hold you forever and everywhere,
To be seemingly nowhere yet always there, forever there,
Like the daylight draping you in its brightness,
And when I see you clad in this dress of daylight, ah my fondness,
For you, your smile, your deep eyes draws me unto you,
Then neither the daylight, nor the day exist, it is just you and only you,
And as I climb the heights of passions and desires,
Let me rest within you like those solemn prayers,
That arise from the heart and dwell forever in the firmament of love,
Then let me believe nothing exists below and nothing exists up above,
It is just the daylight and you,
Where you wear my passions all around you,
And I forever love you,
And I once again believe you were made for me and I was made for you,
Then when the night approaches,
Let me disregard all astral reproaches,
And lie with you Irma under the starry night,
And bask in your love light, that shines brighter than the daylight.
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Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)
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You and Me!
In the summer garden,
Where flowers abound,
With joys never felt before or begotten,
There my love I always have found,
You, In the soft fluttering of butterflies’ wings,
In the tender swaying of these beautiful Summer flowers,
In the heart beat of those young lovers whose hearts a melody sweet sings,
While I seek you in these Summer flowers and in the shadows of carefree lovers,
And as the afternoon Sun shines brighter,
And the angle of every shadow changes,
Then how I miss to hold you tighter,
Before like these shadows the feeling escapes into new emotional ranges,
Where you are the peak and summit of everything,
The Summer, The Summer bliss and my love for you,
And then with my feelings I wrap everything,
Now in the moment it is just us: the Summer, me and you,
Then as dusk descends on the scenes of life,
I stack your memories in my heart and in my mind,
To embark on my new ambition, the night and our life,
Where now, your memories and my feelings I unwind,
And cast them over these golden beams,
As they spread everywhere,
My love Irma, my heart with my mind teams,
And then it is you, just you, in everything and everywhere!
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Javid Ahmad Tak (They Loved in 2075!)