150 Quotes by Annalee Newitz

Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?

The more we deviate from those safe confines [of genre fiction], the more dangerous the story starts to feel, the less safe it is. Sometimes, it veers all the way into the super jaggedy realm of literature, which is really scary and often not escapist and intended to grind your face in the machete of reality.

She could taste a nuanced ethical understanding of the patent system all over his body.

Nothing like drugs to take the edge off drug problems.

Every master loves to fuck a slave. It is a law of nature, or maybe culture.

Sequence wants to be free.

She had a hot date instead of a long, numb night with her mobile.

The scientist’s skin crackled with excitement. “That’s the question that humans always ask—always, always. They want to scoop out the brains of their dead friends, plop them inside a nice new carapace, and presto! Resurrection!

For all the robots who question their programming.