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Category: Stephen Baxter

Well, don’t stand about like that, man; if you’re no use you’re certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.

humor, science-fiction

A brief life burns brightly.

life, science-fiction, stephen-baxter, youth

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

doctor-who, tardis, time-and-space, time-travel

Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.

Every world needed an artist.

If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours.

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.

Sometimes people say that we’re living in the future, and time’s up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn’t about the future. It’s about change and present-day concerns

future, genre, interview, science-fiction

I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to the rhythm of Earth’s day, Earth’s year. I have a vision of a trillion planets pulsing to the beat of a human heart.

destiny, mankind, stephen-baxter

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

future, past, present, stephen-baxter, time

A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.

mind, programming, sentient

If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours.