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He let out a yell of joy. They danced round the room. Pressure of population was such that reproduction had to be strict, controlled. Childbirth required government permission. For this moment, they had waited four years. Incoherently they cried their delight. (Brian Aldiss)
They had the inexpressible benefit of their progenitor's one hundred and seventy-odd years' experience, and not only of his, but of all the other Franks. It was small wonder that, with few exceptions, whatever they did they prospered. View quote
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We must find out what's wrong here. Either we are victims of some ghastly experiment - or we're all monsters! View quote
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There's a way outside. We're - we've got to find out what we are. View quote
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Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system. View quote
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Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name. View quote
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Fantasy is literature for teenagers. View quote
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It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter. View quote
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Frank's chromosome conquered everywhere. Peace was guaranteed. View quote
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Science fiction has always seemed to me such a polyglot, an exotic mistress, a parasite, a kind of new language coined for the purpose of giving tongue to the demented twentieth century. View quote
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That's the difference between the two genres - and it's an almighty difference! And the truth is science fiction, because we all live in a world that's changed forever. It's never going to go back to what it was in the '60s or the '70s or the '30s, or whatever. It's changed. (Brian Aldiss)
We have built illusions round us and see no way out of the glass forest. View quote
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It was extraordinary to be in two places at once, doing two different things - extraordinary, but not confusing. View quote
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These people, scattered all over the country, a few of them on the continent, were much like normal people. To outsiders, their relationship was not apparent; they certainly never revealed it; they never met. View quote
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-""Expansion to your ego, friend"". -""At your expense"". View quote
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AI, as they call it, is not going to be achieved by present-day machines."Artificial Intelligence" - that makes it sound simple, but what you're really talking about is artificial consciousness, AC. View quote
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There is only the pattern; the pattern is all the universe, creator and created. View quote
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The house was a rambling affair. It had few windows, and such as there were did not open, were unbreakable and admitted no light. View quote
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When the first flint, the first shell, was shaped into a weapon, that action shaped man. As he molded and complicated his tools, so they molded and complicated him. View quote
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Plato would have no actors in his republic, in case pretence devoured what was real. Plato's fears have proved well-grounded. View quote
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Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name. (Brian Aldiss)
The ambition of the original Frank had not died; it had grown subtler. It had become a wish to sample everything. View quote
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Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. Most frequently, the scientific dressing clothes fantasy. And fantasies are as meaningful as science. The phantasms of technology now fittingly embody our hopes and anxieties. View quote
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When the first flint, the first shell, was shaped into a weapon, that action shaped man. As he molded and complicated his tools, so they molded and complicated him. He became the first scientific animal. And at last, via information theory and great computers, he gained knowledge of all his parts. He formed the Laws of Integration, which reveal all beings as part of a pattern and show them their part in the pattern. There is only the pattern; the pattern is all the universe, creator and created. View quote
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Frank's chromosome conquered everywhere. Peace was guaranteed. By the end of another century's ruthless intermarriage, Russia and Asia were engulfed as thoroughly as Europe, and by the same loving methods. Billions of people: one consciousness. View quote
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