The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the spectres of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermo-nuclear wea...
Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It's about asking an impossible question, "What if...?" and building a story out of the answer. Romance on the other hand, is fundamentally about relationships. The hypothetical romance transp...
Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.
The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction.
What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists' uroburos, continually eating its own ...
The twentieth century prided itself on invalidating the metaphysical. Doubts about the afterlife arose even as so-called nonbelievers attempted to locate surrogates for the loss of meaning atheism occasioned. Enraptured with progress, we deepened our...
Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic society learn to separate good science from bunk. This is not just a matter of intellectual curiosity, as it...
Why has the medical profession not taken advantage of the help available from evolutionary biology, a well-developed branch of science with great potential for providing medical insights? One reason is surely the pervasive neglect of this branch of s...
One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it s...
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a...
Rivalry between scholars improves science.
Myth is ancient science; science is modern myth.
It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.
If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.
