Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.
One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better
It’s very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized….The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.
Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space program, it’ll serve us right!
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program.
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
I’d visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.