classic science fiction lines

Subject: RE: classic science fiction lines
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 03:59 PM

The word classic in such a context, is so vague and overused by pop culture as to render it nearly meaningless...

Subject: RE: classic science fiction lines
From: X
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 03:58 PM

...and God said, "Let there be light."

Subject: RE: classic science fiction lines
From: lamarca
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 03:55 PM

From "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke:

"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."

Click here for an on-line copy of the short story, which was one of the inspirations for Bob Zentz's "When All Thy Names Are One" (see - it's even folk-music related - sortof...)

Subject: classic science fiction lines
From: Peter T.
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 03:46 PM

Oh, why not, it's Friday. From "The Day The Earth Stood Still":

"I'm worried, worried about what Gort might do. If anything should happen to me, you must go to Gort, and you must say to him: Klaatu verada nictu."

yours, Peter T.