As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

Christ, what an imagination I've got!

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.