"Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision."

"The horror genre—which I define as “perfectly horrible things happen to perfectly nice people for no reason at all.”"

"A story with no moral isn't worth writing; a story with no plot isn't worth reading. And if people get your point bef…"

"Often, in writing, granting the basic skill of writing a literate English sentence—which can no longer be taken for g…"

"You have the Barbarian viewpoint, I see. Radio, for instance. We use it for emergency needs. The Barbarians used to l…"

"A trail without beginning has no end."

"If you can’t be inconspicuous, be so damned conspicuous that nobody can miss you. And that in itself is a fair concea…"

"Our world is rotten, but I’ve no confidence that the new world will be better!"

"“From space there was no sign of life.” Moray, the heavy swarthy man who was the official representative of Earth Exp…"

"He said harshly, “You are suggesting that we abandon the effort—and relapse into barbarism?”… “I hope not, captain. I…"