“I’m an extinct volcano.”— Nancy Lady Astor Related Quotes “It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.”— Paul Di Filippo “Anyway, if the Cetagandans really wanted to assassinate you, they’d hardly do it here. They’d slip something subtle under your skin that wouldn’t go off for six months, and then would drop you mysteriously and untraceably in your tracks”— Lois McMaster Bujold “To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.”— Barbara Dana