Favorite scifi
"You mean," asked Carol, "that there might really be a Devil?"
"Two centuries ago," said Maxwell, "people asked, in exactly the same tone of voice as you...
Steadying himself with one hand, he stumbled to a panel on the other side of the circular cabin. He fumbled the catches loose, cursing in the fine old style of galactic deckhands, opened the panel...
'So this is it,' said Arthur, 'we are going to die.'
'Yes,' said Ford, 'except … no! Wait a minute!' he suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision...
He recalled the response from the Litany against Fear as his mother had taught him out of the Bene Gesserit rite.
'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death...
It made him sorrowful, but Ender did not weep. He was done with that. When they had turned Valentine into a stranger, when they had used her as a tool to work on Ender, from that day...
