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That is why you are so troubled. You see through the deception, yet you refuse to see through the deception.

— Brian Aldiss Aboard the Beatitude (2002)

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Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Barefoot in the Head (1969)

Only a madman would claim that there is some thing unreal about reality.

Aboard the Beatitude (2002)

The shuffle only demonstrated people’s fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

Greybeard (1964)

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Penguin Science Fiction (1961)

Poor little warrior, science will never invent anything to assist the titanic death you want in the contra-terrene caverns of your fee-fi-fo-fumblingly fearful id!

Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

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