SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious. Anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out. Nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible.

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

To shine is better than to reflect.

I don't get even, I get odder.

Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.