The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories. David Gerrold More Quotes by David Gerrold More Quotes From David Gerrold Theres two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once youve read, you never look at the world the same way again. David Gerrold stars adventure book Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones. David Gerrold surprise life-is littles You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for. David Gerrold men death way Imagine yourself in the scene. See what there is to be seen. Listen to the sounds. Touch the world. Smell the air. Taste it. Use all of your senses. Then evoke those experiences for the reader. If you give the audience the flavor, they'll flesh out the moment in their own imaginations. David Gerrold smell air writing Only people who haven't lived through a war advocate it so eagerly. David Gerrold havens war people You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails. David Gerrold jail civilization people Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to occur. Movies that take place in outer space always start with a shot of stars and a starship. Movies that take place on another world always start with a shot of that planet. This is to let you know where you are. Novels and stories start the same way. You have to give the reader a sense of where he is and what's happening as quickly as possible. You don't want to start the story by confusing the reader. David Gerrold space stars writing Most people say they want justice, but they don't really want justice. They want revenge. They want to see the pain spread around equally. David Gerrold pain revenge people Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape. David Gerrold rushing black death I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss. David Gerrold important imagination want What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture. David Gerrold movies internet age culture In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage. David Gerrold great caring culture past When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are in relation to them. David Gerrold look wonder sky night I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer. David Gerrold predict i-think try think The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material. David Gerrold radio tomorrow science television You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books. David Gerrold know you man people Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.' David Gerrold be-different tomorrow unique science 'The Next Generation' was a lot of fun for a while, and then it wasn't a lot of fun. The reason it wasn't a lot of fun was that this one was going to be a guaranteed hit. The original 'Star Trek' was never a guaranteed hit. David Gerrold generation never reason fun If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is the kind of car you're going to be driving in five years or in 20 years you'll be able to take a jet plane from New York to London in four hours,' or something like that. We actually got used to the idea that the future's going to be different. David Gerrold you future car science I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got. David Gerrold think future internet car
