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Joan D. Vinge Quotes

American - Author | April 2, 1948 -

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

Path You Choose Forever Must Every

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

Human Obsession Immortality Universal

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

Future Die Born Everything Room

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

World Run Out System Own Weight

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

Balance Environment Long Order Only

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

Balance Ancestors Human Own Fragile

There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.

Lunch Free Level Free Lunch Least

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

Time Behavior Human Behavior Human

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

Girl Moon She Naive Out Native

I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.

Hope Enough Find Way Possible Keep

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

Snow Queen World Story Universe Own

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

Science Climb Reading Enjoy Beyond

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