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

James Nicoll

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Romeo and Juliet died. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

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

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

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Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

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[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.

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The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.