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“Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.”

James Nicoll

[dfsgau$rel$1@reader1.panix.com, 2005]
2000s

Future

“[H]umans hate to admit error even as they stand there, black and smoldering, with the stub of a cigarette in one hand, in the middle of a wide crater containing them and the remains of a sign that once read 'DANGER: VOLATILE EXPLOSIVES”

James Nicoll

[d8ceo5$gng$1@reader1.panix.com, 2005]
2000s

Hate , Error , Reading

“Thoughtful consideration has led me to decide that romance, involving as it does the highly complex interaction of human neurochemisty{sic} with cultural and technological factors, is hard SF. Very hard SF because romance is especially difficult to mentally simulate accurately, not easy-peasy like rocket science. Romance as hard SF may seem counterintuitive, but it’s the counterintuitive results of modeling that are often the most interesting outcomes.”

James Nicoll

review of Don't Fear the Reaper, by Zen Cho http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/dont-fear-the-reaper, 2016
2010s

Science

“Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.”

James Nicoll

[dgpfn2$h61$1@reader1.panix.com, 2005]
2000s

“I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.”

James Nicoll

[at2mut$at9$1@panix1.panix.com, 2002]
Compare "People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like." (attributed to w:Abraham Lincoln).
2000s

Hate , Reading

“[The cat] and I have an agreement: I leave her alone and don't make sudden moves when I wake up to find her perched on my chest, staring with an unblinking hostile gaze at my face and in return she rarely mutilates me.”

James Nicoll

[dl571e$11k$1@reader2.panix.com, 2005]
2000s

Hostility , Cats

“[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.”

James Nicoll

[efprv2$bpa$1@reader1.panix.com, 2006]
2000s

Books , Evil

“(James) White seems from all reports to have been a very pleasant fellow but he did have one huge blind spot, which is that he was as sexist as a giant ball of sexists wrapped in a dense layer of yet more sexists.”

James Nicoll

(review of 'The Lights Outside the Windows' by James White (collected in "Deadly Litter") https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-universe-is-antagonist-enough, 2014
2010s

“The number of times I have been declared dead is statistically insignificant, although admittedly non-zero.”

James Nicoll

[d5oimc$32d$1@reader1.panix.com, 2005]
2000s

Time , Dead

“It takes a courageous Mormon to turn to archaeology to support their argument”

James Nicoll

LiveJournal post title http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/622558.html (2006)
2010s

Courage , Support

“Alas, time and head injuries are stealing all my memories.”

James Nicoll

Review of Women of Wonder, anthology edited by Pamela Sargent https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/by-women-about-women, 2015
2010s

Memory , Time

“Manitoba… Not sure what to do about them. Restock the province with megafauna and encourage tourism, I think. How quickly can we breed back the saber-toothed cats?”

James Nicoll

[deq4re$ki7$1@reader2.panix.com, 2005]
2000s

Cats , Thinking

“Look, I tried the cat experiment. On the third trial, the cat was dead. On each of the subsequent 413 trials, it remained dead. Am I doing something wrong?”

James Nicoll

[1992Mar11.195332.28642@watdragon.waterloo.edu, 1992]
1990s

Cats , Dead

“Atomic war is bad but you know what’s even worse? Having had enough atomic wars that you can rank them in terms of horribleness.”

James Nicoll

Review of Voodoo Planet: Solar Queen, book 3 by Andre Norton http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/oh-andre-norton-no, 2015
2010s

War

“The one job that machines cannot do is be a cruel plutocrat. That’s why humans are still needed.”

James Nicoll

Review of Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/i-dont-care-what-happens-to-these-characters, 2015
2010s

“I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.”

James Nicoll

[diu2g2$dc1$1@reader2.panix.com, 2005]
2000s

“This I (still) believe:
Fire is not necessarily your friend. Neither are dogs. Things with lit fuses should not be held onto. Beware the savage croquet ball. If it is -30 out, put on a coat before you leave the house. Just because the snow keeps you from seeing other objects the objects do not cease to exist. Clotheslines are the enemy of the bicyclist. If you don't remember how you got on the ground or where the blood came from, don't get up right away. Gym teachers think it's funny to commit assault with a baseball so don't day-dream during PE even if they have you so far in the outfield there are DEW line posts on either side of you. All guns are loaded. So are many bows. Trebuchets are for outside use only…”

James Nicoll

Facebook post (2014) https://www.facebook.com/james.nicoll.927/posts/10152710405547985
2010s

Dogs , Dreams , Thinking , Teachers

“The thing about the Star Wars expanded universe that most impresses me is how the need for endless sequels has taken what was way back in the late Disco a fairly upbeat series where the good guys eventually prevailed and turned into a crapsack setting that's grimmer than the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Congo Wars I & II and the Mongol Conquests combined.”

James Nicoll

Bujold list message http://lists.herald.co.uk/pipermail/lois-bujold/2011-February/070018.html (2011)
2010s

War , Way , Guy , Star

“My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.”

James Nicoll

[dvhsne$d0k$1@reader2.panix.com, 2006]
2000s