Brian Aldiss

"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 h…"

"Let’s have a toast—to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!"

"There has always been a belief in miracles in the popular mind. As L. Sprague de Camp once said, the public would rather be bunked than debunked."

"Irreconcilables: he should stay here and conform; he should — not stay here . Another point of pain was that "here" and "not here" seemed to be not two halves of a homogeneous whole, but two dissonanc…"

"She had tried to love him."

"Why should you be confused just because you come from a confused civilization?"

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"The ambition of the original Frank had not died; it had grown subtler. It had become a wish to sample everything. The more bodily habitations there were with which to sample, the more tantalizing the …"