Sublime

John Smith, U.S.A.” He went on to develop his view of himself in some detail: He is the man who doesn’t know much, nor thinks that he knows much. He starts out with certain ambitions but he gradually accumulates obligations as he goes along, and they continually increase. They begin with his inherited family, and grow with the family that results f

The most colorful character I ever met at science fiction conventions in the 1950s was Harlan Ellison, who was barely out of his teens at the time. He claims he is five feet four inches tall, but it doesn’t really matter. In talent, energy, and courage he is eight feet tall. He was born in 1934 and had a miserable youth. Being always small and bein

In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.

tell you; a state is no better than its leader. Führerprinzip – Principle of Leadership, like the Nazis say. They’re right. Even this Abendsen has to face that. Sure,

Phillip K. Dick, one of the few classic science fiction writers I’ve read, explained reality as, ‘that which, if you stop believing in it, does not go away.’

human mercenary instinct.