Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.

War is all and king of all

Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.

Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.

Time is so...fluid where I live

Love sees all; hate is blind.

In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have been made in antiquity that one who desires, in any age, to take the position that apocalypse is at hand can easily defend it. He would not join that dour order; he would not worry about anything but Tempus, and the matter awaiting his attention.