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born 1952 United States
David Zindell (born November 28, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author with a degree in mathematics. His first published story was "The Dreamer's Sleep" in Fantasy Book in 1984 and he won the Writers of the Future contest the following year.
United States Essayists Novelists Science fiction authors Short story writers Also known as: Neverness, The Broken God, The Wild, War in Heaven
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The true human being ... is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities.
The Broken God (1992)
Any robot sufficiently intelligent to clean dishes is too intelligent to clean dishes.
Neverness (1988)
What's beautiful is that a creator can be astonished by his own creations.
Neverness (1988)
The universe is a womb for the genesis of gods.
Neverness (1988)
In time, the heart of each religion grows hard and dies. And so seekers of the godly will always turn to new prophets and new ways, never realizing that, ultimately, all religions separate man from God.
The Broken God (1992)
For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face.
The Wild (1995)
"All living things are afraid to die."
Neverness (1988)
Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out? (p88)
Neverness (1988)
The secret of life is more life.
Neverness (1988)
I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.
Neverness (1988)
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