Enoch...why are you here? Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical bodi in this world generally? Or specifically, why am I here in a Swedish forest, standing on the wreck of a mysterious German rocket plane while a homosexual German sobs over the cremated remains of his Italian lover?

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.

It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.

The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rulers - It's the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments - Too bad we've forgotten how to do it