“The day the Dragon chooses a male virgin instead of a female as his yearly sacrifice, the entire kingdom erupts into mass protests and anger.”

“When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, the whole palace is upset. You must go back to sleep, her mother tells her, Its not time. From what she understands, the Prince hasnt come to rescue her yet.”

“The next morning, boom! She found herself waking in bed next to the handsome, rogue-supporting character of her favourite novel. Out of the blue, Mary Sue was inside the #1 bestseller, epic fantasy...”

“When the Lilliputian family of the Pequenos migrated to Gullivers land of the Man Mountains, they expected to encounter many strange issues while settling in. What Mrs Pequenos didnt anticipate was...”

“At first, Maisie had been glad to work with a female crewmember. So much the better to fend off the sneers, leers, and veiled derision of her male majority shipmates. But now she knew better. Karen...”

“Ive always wondered about your name, Misha said to Hijja while scraping a bit of space gunk from the window of their spaceship.”

“Ive always believed that, as long as were left alone to do what were good at, and be who weve decided to be, things will turn out all right in the end. Now, me being strapped to a chair, unable to ...”

“For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, We came in peace for all Mankind. As th...”

“It's going to happen soon, a nuclear war. Someday, somewhere, some jackass politician will get in over his head and push the button, and us? Society? We haven't really grasped the full reality of t...”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”

“We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arri...”

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”