Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?.

Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel..

You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen..

In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial civilization, and th….

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it..

Will none wipe the sneer off the face of the cosmos?.

I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message….

So much American science fiction is parochial - not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less li….

Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deat….

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?.

It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cul….

These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts..