Nightmares can be the truth. It wasn’t just villains who had to make the hard decisions.

Vernor Vinge, After the Battle on Starship Hill: Prologue to The Children of the Sky [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Vinge After the Battle on Starship Hill nightmares truth villains make hard decisions

Consider also:

  1. 2010: Odyssey Two
  2. The Masters Revealed
  3. “We seek truth in all human experience, principally because we want security; we want that certainty that we are not deceiving ourselves. The question is, how do we know when we have attained truth? To most of us, truth consists of the substantiation of our ideas.”
  4. “the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.”
  5. “Will we be burnt as witches?” Jane whirled on them furiously. “I wish,” she started to say. “Don’t!” Katharine almost screamed