First, let it be understood that I am a very prejudiced man. ‘Prejudiced’ means simply working from prejudgments, from previously acquired information. A juryman in a trial case should be free from prejudice as to that case, but I cannot think of another circumstance where prejudice is a disadvantage, though unfortunately the word has a bad name. It is a distinct disadvantage to have to wake up in a new world every day and to learn it all over again. — Luna #67, interview wi

This isn’t a question of turning you upside down or inside out. You have all been turned inside out for a very long time. The approximate dates of the turning are in my databanks; the reasons and circumstances of it are not. That is not your right surfaces that you have been seeing for this long time. Those are your blooming entrails on the outside of you, draped about you, looped over your pseudo-ears. Even more than on the physical do these analogies apply on the psychic pl

There was the Asteroid Midas, a big-beaked bird of a gambler who could do things with card and dice and markers in his long talons that seemed unlawful. — Space Chantey  (1968) They plucked that Asteroid Bird, the two of them, man and machine. He had been one of the richest and most extended of all creatures, with a pinion on every planet. They left the great Midas with scarcely a tail feather. When Tell and Gahn did business with a fellow now, they really did business. And

“I began to see that there was an element of humor in that dubious transaction that I had made so many years ago, and that part of the joke was on me.” In September of 1976, Lafferty finished “Bright Coins in Never-Ending Flow,” a short story about a man named Matthew Quoin who may or may not have made a deal with the devil. I’ve been thinking about it because of the role the U.S. penny plays in Quoin’s life. The story builds up to the consequences for Quoin after the penny c