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All we want from Thalassa is a hundred thousand tons of water. Or, to be more specific, ice.

the only rule regulating shipboard sex was "So long as you don't do it in the corridors and frighten the simps.

Oh, yes, safe for humans. Animals too. But there is an exclusion zone.

This is as bad as the Pandora party! It's nothing less than interstellar xenophobia!

The Opinions Expressed In This Book Are Not Those Of The Author.

The gate opened. The gate closed. In a moment of time too short to be measured, space opened and turned on itself.

when a man sells his independence of thought for money or status, without realizing it he also sells his capacity for independence of thought; and, like the worn-out columnists and commentators, he must play the same old record over and over, because he has no capacity for taking a fresh point of view.

was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but perhaps men were barbarians, beside the creatures who had made this thing.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom. Perhaps

The Great Bird will take its flight on the back of the great bird, bringing glory to the nest where it was born.

Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting

religion was the by-product of fear—a reaction to a mysterious and often hostile universe.

Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson." There

You see," Nicole added, "the mythological Eden was a beginning, the start of what we might call our modern Western culture.

One of the benefits of Dr. Kreuger's eminence was an unlimited computer budget:

That conflict: Technology as it develops is a prayer… but prayer is by definition a subversion of reason. There is no Loophole there.

I believe that Rama is a cosmic Ark, sent here to save—those who are worthy of salvation.

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

He seems to have declared war on the King's English as well as on the English king.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?