“O brave new world,” he began, then-suddenly interrupted himself; the blood had left his cheeks; he was as pale as paper. “Are you married to her?” he asked. “Am I what?” “Married. You know for ever. They say ‘for ever’ in the Indian words; it can’t be broken.” “Ford, no!” Bernard couldn’t help laughing. John […]
Entries Tagged as 'Science Fiction'
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
November 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” Phillip K Dick. I’ve seen breasts like that before!
November 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I’ll sit in the hotel room,” he said, “and watch Buster Friendly on TV. His guest for the last three days has been Amanda Werner. I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.
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“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”, Phillip K. Dick A chemical that delivers a sense of “pleased acknowledgement of husband’s superior wisdom in all matters”? Something for science to aim for…
November 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I’ll dial for both of us, Rick said, and led her back into the bedroom. There, at her console, he dialled 594: pleased acknowledgment of husband’s superior wisdom in all matters. On his own console he dialled for a creative and fresh attitude toward his job, although this he hardly needed; such was his habitual, […]
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Harlan Ellison’s, “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”. Creepy…
October 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
“What does AM mean?” Gorrister answered him. We had done this sequence a thousand times before, but it was Benny’s favorite story. “At first it meant Allied Mastercomputer, and then it meant Adaptive Manipulator, and later on it developed sentience and linked itself up and they called it an Aggressive Menace, but by then it […]
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How Long Is It Since You Were Really Bothered? – Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
October 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Elitism, Philosophy
Let you alone! That’s all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
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T. S. Eliot. Quoted in Nevil Shute’s On the Beach.
October 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river… This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
We’ve all got to die one day, some sooner and some later – “On the Beach”, Neville Shute
October 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Fiction, Humanism, Morality, Nihilist, Nuclear Weapons, Philosophy, Politics
“You know,” he said, “now that I’ve got used to the idea, I think I’d rather have it this way. We’ve all got to die one day, some sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you’re never ready, because you don’t know when it’s coming. Well, now we do know, and there’s […]
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T. S. Eliot. Quoted in Nevil Shute’s On the Beach.
October 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Poetry, Uncategorized
In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river… This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
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