To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man. We must contemplate the moment, now irrevocably lost in the mists of time, when the ancestor off all of us came crawling out of the sea.

Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.

Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.