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“Creating stars in laboratories on the very planets you inhabit turns out to be a bad idea.”

James Nicoll

Almost-Classics: SF Concepts and Settings That Deserve Better Execution https://www.tor.com/2018/01/29/almost-classics-sf-concepts-and-settings-that-deserve-better-execution/ on Tor.com, January 29, 2018 <br class="br">2010s

“I didn't skip the smut. The author went to the trouble of writing it, after all. I did not feel to make notes for possible application later on but I also never wondered if the author was a virgin raised in an abandoned hentai warehouse, which is always a possibility for modern pornographers and erotica writers.”

James Nicoll

LiveJournal post (review of &#x27;The Russians Came Knocking&#x27; by K.B. Spangler), 2014) http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/5086498.html?thread=95347746#t95347746 <br class="br">2010s

“Goodkind is noted for subtle allegories the same way Mt Kilimanjaro is known for floating weightlessly.”

James Nicoll

[d1kr2s$m90$1@reader1.panix.com, 2005]
2000s

“Tor is the hard one. They employ a lot of editors, whose tastes vary. They don't always indicate who has edited what (on the choice of the editor, I think) so editor stalking can be more difficult with Tor. Ear-tagging works but is rather surprisingly illegal.”

James Nicoll

[ddd4ej$hiv$1@reader2.panix.com, 2005]
2000s

“If there's a stack [of novels to review], the unpromising stuff goes at the top and the promising stuff goes at the bottom. That way, I am eager to finish Overwrought Romantic Mary Sue Fantasy because I know that will let me read Niche Product That Only the Author, James and Some Guy at JPL Likes.”

James Nicoll

[dh3na8$a1u$1@reader1.panix.com, 2005]
2000s

“Let's step back and think about the likely outcome of a scenario that involves the words "James Nicoll", "a box of sharp needles" and "possibly without ever having achieved full consciousness" for a moment, shall we?”

James Nicoll

LiveJournal comment http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/228255.html?thread=2188959#t2188959 <br class="br">2000s

“Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.”

James Nicoll

[d45qug$pc5$1@reader1.panix.com, 2005]
2000s

“Yes, I was suprised how easy it was to cut the door off my cat.”

James Nicoll

[cbav4b$qqa$1@panix2.panix.com, 2004]
2000s

“In point of fact, the meteor was something like 30 km when it exploded. It was over north Waterloo and I was north of St Agatha. Two spherical clouds, and two explosions. Unfortunately, I was dealing with a goat that was trying to eat an oil truck's fuel line, goats having this optimistic 'Well, maybe it has become edible since they last time I tried this' worldview, and I missed seeing the explosions.”

James Nicoll

[cbp39u$gbq$1@panix1.panix.com, 2004]
2000s

“It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.”

James Nicoll

[b2jl1a$e39$1@panix2.panix.com, 2003]
2000s

“I also do not recommend shopping with Cordelia Naismith—but I would watch that reality show.”

James Nicoll

&quot;Six Characters with Whom You Should Never Ever Go Camping&quot; https://www.tor.com/2018/08/20/six-characters-with-whom-you-should-never-ever-go-camping/ on Tor.com, August 20, 2018 <br class="br">2010s

“I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?”

James Nicoll

ibid. : About Antrax by Terry Brooks:
2000s

“It's true that the average human in the Xeelee universe can't eat Jell-O with a straw without accident[al]ly removing an eye but these particular humans start off no stupider than than any other human of their era and proceed to breed themselves into imbecility. Well, farther into imbecility.”

James Nicoll

[cvo12q$oii$1@reader2.panix.com, 2005]
2000s

“We discovered at one point that the brick wall of the pillar would hold up a sock pretty well. This led to sorting socks by putting them on the wall, which in turn led to mosaics built entirely of socks. Mission drift is a hazard in all pursuits, including doing the laundry.”

James Nicoll

[d6qu65$cm6$1@reader1.panix.com, 2005]
2000s

“Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located.”

James Nicoll

[dj13l1$hqa$1@reader2.panix.com, 2005]
2000s

“Engineers and certified pilots may be expensive but talented young men with a teenager's grasp of risk are surprisingly affordable.”

James Nicoll

[lsllrn$2m3$1@reader1.panix.com, 2014-08-15]
Reviewing Robert Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo
2010s

“This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never write again. If a dinosaur killing asteroid was headed for Earth and I knew Baxter had another book coming up, I would campaign for letting the rock hit, since it is obviously the work of a benevolent deity trying to save us from another Titan.”

James Nicoll

[914171029.329464@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca, 1998]
1990s

“I wonder if every near-future SF series in which the US is not a brutal theocratic police state ruled by doctrinaire bigoted oligarchs and their boot-licking enablers became obsolete on November 9? Won’t it be fun to find out together?”

James Nicoll

review of Brute Force, by K. B. Spangler http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/my-brain-ibm, 2016 <br class="br">2010s

“A lot of my stories end with "And when I regained consciousness, there was a crowd standing around looking at me."”

James Nicoll

[846uk2$kk$1@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca, 1999]
1990s

“Just as people in zombie apocalypses seem never to have seen a zombie apocalypse movie, so people in novels about the pioneering days of time travel never seem to have read novels on the subject.”

James Nicoll

Review of One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/tick, 2018 <br class="br">2010s