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“I could say it was an accident, I'd meant to take him prisoner and he had tried to get away--Dr. Mensah would never believe that. My accidents were spectacular and usually involved me losing a big chunk of my organic tissue or something; she knew I could stop a human without hurting them, without even leaving a bruise, that was my stupid job. She would never trust me again. She would never stand close enough to touch (but without touching, because touching is gross) and just trust me. Or maybe she would, but it wouldn't be the same. Fuck, fuck everything, fuck this, fuck me especially.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“A seductive female voice added, 鈥淗ello Henry, I鈥檓 the deputy director. But you can call me Samantha.鈥�
Henry鈥檚 response was accusing. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e a droid!鈥�
鈥淚鈥檓 an R9054, one of the most powerful robotic systems devised by Ingermann-Verex, my makers. And I prefer the term humanoid if you don鈥檛 mind.鈥�
Locking onto her image, Henry noted the strange wrap-round view panel enshrouding the top part of the body shell.
Inside, there was a human face seemingly trapped inside an electronic body. Although he鈥檇 seen a number of droids with similar face screens, Samantha鈥檚 was the most realistic, so he guessed her claims of being top of her range were probably right.”
― Andrew R. Williams, Samantha's Revenge

“I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“Morley shrugged. 鈥淲ho knows? Who cares? It鈥檚 not our problem. If everything works out as planned, in a few hours, we鈥檒l be off-moon. And goodbye Arden.鈥�
He attached a distorter to his own collar and turned to face Liege. 鈥淪o what do you think?鈥�
鈥淵ou look different,鈥� Lieges confirmed. Then pessimism returned. 鈥淟et鈥檚 hope we don鈥檛 get caught wearing these distortion collars. We could get two years.”
― Andrew R. Williams, Samantha's Revenge

“Earth wants to be comfortable. The more comfortable someone is, a society is, the less likely they are to seek change, even positive change.”
― Marina J. Lostetter, Noumenon

“There are all the hidden menaces of long journeys on the way.
But we shall go.
Treat it as exile or a new beginning.”
― Osama Siddique, Snuffing out the Moon

“... or else we contemplated the stars beyond the Moon, big as pieces of fruit, made of light, ripened on the curved branches of the sky, and everything exceeded my most luminous hopes ...”
― Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics

“I no longer trusted the sun. I kept half an eye on it, night and day. I told myself that the sun would not go full rogue on us and send a pulse to suck our atmosphere away, but I had a hard time believing it....”
― Brenda Marie Smith, If Darkness Takes Us

“I am Iris, Goddess of the Rainbow, the Sea and the Sky, and a Messenger to the Gods.鈥�
鈥榃-what?鈥� Any minute now, I鈥檒l wake up!
.鈥業 am here to deliver a message from the Great Moon Goddess Selene, who speaks to you through the song of the Siren, that which seduces the soul with its beauty.”
― Tracey Morait, Episode

“Then show me what you are. Give me the trust you ask me to give you.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed

“For the first time, I see pure, unadulterated hatred blazing in the eyes of what I must remind myself is only a machine.

"Because you have a SOUL!" She smiles, but the hate still smolders in her eyes. Life without death? Quite the conundrum! How can there be life without death? Without death, what need is there for your god and his heaven?”
― Quentin R. Bufogle, THE CONCUBINE OF MARS

“As her heart jumped at the alarm and she instinctively snatched up her own backpack from the beside her desk, Meliss regretted not having Lauren鈥檚 bag to hand. She thought of the clothes stashed away that would still smell of her, the little terrarium that Lauren had painstakingly built inside an old-fashioned light bulb.”
― Dixon Reuel

“They may not appreciate our point of view. We might frighten them, or bore them, or make them uncomfortable. This does not mean we should go away.”
― Marina J. Lostetter, Noumenon

“Rina balanced a small accounting tablet on her lap while The Galgorum burrowed. For three hours the cutters squealed into glacial ice. Conrad鈥檚 breath hawed and hawed over the comlink that connected their suits, loud in Rina鈥檚 helmet until she wanted to crawl back up to the surface.”
― Dixon Reuel, Harmemoric Asylum

“I鈥檝e come to find that traveling the multiverse produces the same effect as a gnarly hangover induced by tequila, very distinct from one brought on by wine or whiskey. I have some experience with the former, more with the latter”
― M.K. Williams, The Infinite-Infinite

“You鈥檙e like the tide, you keep coming back to me. And each time you do you bring fresh salt spilling and gurgling into my wounds and you take away the ground that I stand on, leaving me to wonder when I鈥檒l fall again.”
― M.K. Williams, The Infinite-Infinite

“You can鈥檛 keep jumping from reality to reality in hopes of finding one that you can fix. Or one that is perfect for you. No reality is perfect. You鈥檙e exactly where you鈥檙e meant to be. You have to stand and face reality.”
― M.K. Williams, The Infinite-Infinite

“The universe had just been upended. All of the pieces and places, the people and the particles, slid off a grand checkerboard and crashed into the ground, scattershot.”
― M.K. Williams, The Infinite-Infinite

“The minutes sped by with abandon. Each of them wasted, frittered away with Marie and Feminina circling the mental path that led them back to the same result. Every second skipped ahead, gleefully taunting Nina, laughing at her misery as time carried her further and further away from Hank again.”
― M.K. Williams, The Infinite-Infinite

“Aye, Sir. Would you please pull something out of your goody-bag and use it?”
― Sam B. Miller II

“Outro pensamento lhe ocorria sempre que varria com os olhos aquelas min煤sculas manchetes eletr么nicas. Quanto mais maravilhoso o meio de comunica莽茫o, mais trivial, med铆ocre ou deprimente seu conte煤do parecia ser. Acidentes, crimes, desastres naturais ou provocados pelo homem, amea莽as de conflito, editoriais sombrios - essas coisas ainda pareciam ser a preocupa莽茫o principal dos milh玫es de palavras borrifadas no 茅ter. E, no entanto, Floyd tamb茅m se perguntava se isso de fato seria ruim; os jornais de Utopia, ele conclu铆ra h谩 muito tempo, seriam terrivelmente chatos.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“My ideas come from the dark recesses of my mind, reaching out with tendrils of shadow, pulling me in and turning my world into a constantly shifting whirlwind of reality ranging from space exploration and alien worlds to teleporting cats, time travel and mind reading. You know, the usual places.”
― Alex G Zarate

“Alex dragged her gaze away from the visuals to regard Nika curiously. 鈥淓ach one of these points of view鈥攖hey鈥檙e all you?鈥�

鈥淵es. And each one is mentally connected to the others, and to this instance. To me.鈥�

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鈥淭o start? Eight thousand.鈥�

Alex blinked. 鈥淓ight THOUSAND? Can all Asterions do this? Can you teach鈥斺€�

Caleb reached over and touched Alex鈥檚 arm. 鈥淣o, baby. You鈥檙e not splitting yourself into eight thousand shards. The universe is barely surviving one of you.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Continuum

“There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to Him. Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness, and one who sows discord in the world. Proverbs 6:16.”
― Dan Skinner, Xperiment

“Now I need to tell you all the information I desperately wanted to tell you last night at the party, but kept my mouth shut for Dad鈥檚 sake.鈥�

Miriam set her teacup on its coaster and folded her arms atop her desk to give Alex her full attention. 鈥淵ou went to NGC 55 and observed some Rasu.鈥�

鈥淪ome Rasu? Yes, I most definitely observed 鈥榮ome鈥� Rasu.鈥�

鈥淎nd what did your observations tell you?鈥�

鈥淭hat we should go back to Aurora.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Continuum

“They wore full-coverage raid suits, thick-filtered helmets, their gloves embellished with a ridge of claw-like, upturned hooks along each knuckle, all emblazoned with the logo of Atlas鈥擥reek Titan of Endurance鈥攕houldering the world in a neon blue silhouette.”
― Dixon Reuel, Powdered Souls, A Short Story: They Decided to Survive

“So, you're a glass half-empty man." McCloud tapped his fingertips against the beer glass.

Reggie shrugged. "Maybe I am."

"Here's something I think glass-half-empty people always fail to consider..." He paused.

Reggie pursed his lips and raised an eyebrow.
"What?"

With a flick of his wrist, McCloud had the beer in his hand. In the next moment, he poured it down Reggie's front.

"AUGH!" Reggie sprang up trying to jump away from the liquid that had already soaked through to his skin. "What the hell?!"

McCloud laughed. "It's not the empty that leaves an impression, is it?”
― Marina J. Lostetter, Noumenon

“Look, kid. [...] You've got to face it, we're all spoons, ok?”
― Marina J. Lostetter, Noumenon

“Diplomacy and Deception gentlemen, diplomacy and deception."
Magistrate Sacdrua”
― Arsh Rehman, Roach Sin

“Wait, you remember where you keep your stashes with equations?鈥� he鈥檇 demanded incred-
ulously when I started giving him directions.
鈥淚t鈥檚 easier than memorizing them,鈥� I tried to explain, but he just shook his head at me and de-
parted with the list.”
― S.L. Huang, Zero Sum Game