But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!

We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.