The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development. – John Desmond Bernal

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. Thats the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We dont talk about football or anything like that. – Kevin J. Anderson