Guy P. Harrison
@guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social
Just a simple urbanized/hypnotized eukaryote writing books along the road to extinction. I think; therefore, I'm not sure. Run fast, lift heavy. Kindness is cool.
Critical thinking is free.
Sloppy thinking can be very expensive.
Sloppy thinking can be very expensive.
October 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Critical thinking is free.
Sloppy thinking can be very expensive.
Sloppy thinking can be very expensive.
“Fascist politics thrives on the human frailty that makes our own suffering seem bearable if we know that those we look down upon are being made to suffer more.” —Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
October 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“Fascist politics thrives on the human frailty that makes our own suffering seem bearable if we know that those we look down upon are being made to suffer more.” —Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
“Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War.” —Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, 2006 novel
September 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War.” —Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, 2006 novel
“But growth was always an illusion, bought only by exploiting other people or the Earth’s irreplaceable resources or burning up our children’s future.” —Stephen Baxter, Manifold: Time, 2000 novel
September 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“But growth was always an illusion, bought only by exploiting other people or the Earth’s irreplaceable resources or burning up our children’s future.” —Stephen Baxter, Manifold: Time, 2000 novel
"They stared at their phones and listened to their headpieces and looked through their glasses of augmented reality, and mostly they forgot. Forgot what it meant to be human." —Daniel Arenson, Earth Alone, 2016 novel
September 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
"They stared at their phones and listened to their headpieces and looked through their glasses of augmented reality, and mostly they forgot. Forgot what it meant to be human." —Daniel Arenson, Earth Alone, 2016 novel
“Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous."
September 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous."
Stop letting social media make you stupid.
September 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Stop letting social media make you stupid.
September 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“That’s the curse of intelligence—never being satisfied, always longing for something but not knowing what.” ―Peter Cawdron, Cold Eyes, 2021 novel
September 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“That’s the curse of intelligence—never being satisfied, always longing for something but not knowing what.” ―Peter Cawdron, Cold Eyes, 2021 novel
Something my camera saw along the way...
"Do not destroy what you cannot create." ―Leo Szilard
#somethingmycamerasawalongtheway
"Do not destroy what you cannot create." ―Leo Szilard
#somethingmycamerasawalongtheway
September 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Something my camera saw along the way...
"Do not destroy what you cannot create." ―Leo Szilard
#somethingmycamerasawalongtheway
"Do not destroy what you cannot create." ―Leo Szilard
#somethingmycamerasawalongtheway
September 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“Strange, isn’t it? Everything you know, your entire civilization, it all begins right here in this little pond of goo. Appropriate somehow, isn’t it?” ― Q (extraterrestrial entity), Star Trek: The Next Generation, “All Good Things…” 1994, written by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga
September 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“Strange, isn’t it? Everything you know, your entire civilization, it all begins right here in this little pond of goo. Appropriate somehow, isn’t it?” ― Q (extraterrestrial entity), Star Trek: The Next Generation, “All Good Things…” 1994, written by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga
The scientifically advanced monkey...
September 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The scientifically advanced monkey...
Climbing from the cradle...
September 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Climbing from the cradle...
“One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.” ― Ex Machina, 2014 film, written by Alex Garland
#damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes
#damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes
August 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.” ― Ex Machina, 2014 film, written by Alex Garland
#damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes
#damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes
“Kol-Ut-Shan, infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Accept difference, respect difference—come in peace.” ― The Autobiography of Mr. Spock, 2021 novel by Una McCormack
#damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes
#damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes
August 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
“Kol-Ut-Shan, infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Accept difference, respect difference—come in peace.” ― The Autobiography of Mr. Spock, 2021 novel by Una McCormack
#damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes
#damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes
Death is harsh...
“It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone.” ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, 2020 novel
“It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone.” ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, 2020 novel
August 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Death is harsh...
“It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone.” ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, 2020 novel
“It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone.” ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, 2020 novel
Just another domesticated eukaryote cursed with consciousness...
August 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Just another domesticated eukaryote cursed with consciousness...
“The stars will never be won by little minds; we must be big as space itself.” —Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star, 1956 novel #sciencefiction #books
August 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“The stars will never be won by little minds; we must be big as space itself.” —Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star, 1956 novel #sciencefiction #books
“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.” ―Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem, 2014 novel
DAMN YOU, ENTROPY!
DAMN YOU, ENTROPY!
August 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.” ―Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem, 2014 novel
DAMN YOU, ENTROPY!
DAMN YOU, ENTROPY!
"The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." ―Babylon 5, television series, “Survivors,” 1994, written by Marc Scott Zicree
DAMN YOU, ENTROPY! 1,001 OF THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION QUOTES
#sciencefiction #books
DAMN YOU, ENTROPY! 1,001 OF THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION QUOTES
#sciencefiction #books
August 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." ―Babylon 5, television series, “Survivors,” 1994, written by Marc Scott Zicree
DAMN YOU, ENTROPY! 1,001 OF THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION QUOTES
#sciencefiction #books
DAMN YOU, ENTROPY! 1,001 OF THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION QUOTES
#sciencefiction #books
Everything new is in an old science-fiction novel…
"It makes me uneasy to see the ignorance in which we run our world."
—George Zebrowski, Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia, 1979 novel
#sciencefictionquotesguyharrisonloves
"It makes me uneasy to see the ignorance in which we run our world."
—George Zebrowski, Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia, 1979 novel
#sciencefictionquotesguyharrisonloves
August 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Everything new is in an old science-fiction novel…
"It makes me uneasy to see the ignorance in which we run our world."
—George Zebrowski, Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia, 1979 novel
#sciencefictionquotesguyharrisonloves
"It makes me uneasy to see the ignorance in which we run our world."
—George Zebrowski, Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia, 1979 novel
#sciencefictionquotesguyharrisonloves
"To hypnotize humans was easy because, out of any species in the universe, they seemed the one most desperate to believe." ―Matt Haig, The Humans, 2013 novel
August 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"To hypnotize humans was easy because, out of any species in the universe, they seemed the one most desperate to believe." ―Matt Haig, The Humans, 2013 novel
“Time machines may be dangerous.” ― Igor Novikov, The Future of Spacetime: Essays by Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris and Alan Lightman
August 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“Time machines may be dangerous.” ― Igor Novikov, The Future of Spacetime: Essays by Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris and Alan Lightman
“Each of our human bodies contains far more atoms than there are stars in the visible universe, and our brains contain about as many neurons as there are stars in our galaxy. The universe within is a worthy complement to the universe beyond.”
– Fundamentals, by Frank Wilczek
– Fundamentals, by Frank Wilczek
August 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“Each of our human bodies contains far more atoms than there are stars in the visible universe, and our brains contain about as many neurons as there are stars in our galaxy. The universe within is a worthy complement to the universe beyond.”
– Fundamentals, by Frank Wilczek
– Fundamentals, by Frank Wilczek