The constable on the platform has halted my luggage, who are just sitting there now while he insists on seeing papers. He’s twice my age, if that, fat from the easy life in Thaos and probably as corrupt as he is stupid. Only someone truly cretinous would think that someone else would try something as stupid as march through a public terminal with illegal creatures. Even my ragged little familiar, my first real success at invigoration, is legal, albeit two half-cats stitched together - a ginger one and a black one - to make a whole one. Nothing in the city ordinances about having posession of dead creatures who are not a threat to public health, and apart from a rather strong odour of embalming fluid, the only threatening thing about Leo is the fact that he’s ever so slightly lop-sided, so it is possible that if he was somewhere high, he might slip and he is a rather large cat. Was a rather large cat. Two rather large cats. Needless to say it could hurt if he fell on you.

Ceriņi

• Rietumu zinātniskās fantastikas lasītājus ir sabojājis kino. Lasītāji grib 'apmēram zvaigžņu karus un ceļus', redaktori izvēlas, ko grib lasītāji, un autori neiespringst.
  Austrumos (Um... no Polijas sākot, ja?) gan lasītāji vēl spējot novērtēt kārtīgu zinātnisko fantastiku.


• Krievijā Harisonu lasa daudz vairāk, kā rietumos. Pat pēc oficiālajām tirāžām, par kurām autoram tiek maksāts. (jā, šāds blinku izvietojums ir apzināts.)


• Lai gan dažās rietumu universitātēs ir kursi par sf literatūru, diemžēl tos vada tieši šīs literatūras fani. Tas neveicina SF kritikas attīstību.


• Zinātnes un sf attīstība ir saistīta ar ciešām rezonanses saitēm. Hei, visi raķešzinātnieki (frāze, kas lieliski skan angliski, un nekam neder latviski) ir arī sf fani.


• Tolkīns ir briesmīgs dzejnieks. Ja gribat lasīt labu Tolkīna dzeju, lasiet to esperanto, nevis angliski.


• Kiberpanka autori par maz zinot par datoriem. Tas traucējot uztvert viņu darbus


• Katrā zinātniskās fantastikas darbā ir vieni lieli meli. Lai tiem varētu noticēt, visam pārējam jābūt patiesam. Vai vismaz ne acīrmedzami kļūdaina.

jaunvārdu "mirkšķi" tik šādai vajadzībai vien īsti ieviest negribējās. Iztiksim ar blinkiem.

Somehow I think throphy wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But, hey, I haven't ever met a trophy wife, maybe I'wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs, Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like t have six. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter, has been seeing too many small knives.

What was it they said about gods? They wouldn't exist if there weren't people to believe in them? And that applied to everything. Reality was what went on inside people's heads.

Rachael: Do you like our owl?
Deckard: It's artificial?
Rachael: Of course it is.
Deckard: Must be expensive.
Rachael: Very. I'm Rachael.
Deckard: Deckard.
Rachael: It seems you feel our work is not a benefit to the public.
Deckard: Replicants are like any other machine. They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.
Rachael: May I ask you a personal question?
Deckard: Sure.
Rachael: Have you ever retired a human by mistake?
Deckard: No.
Rachael: But in your position that is a risk?

Understand the rules, and know how and why to follow the rules, before you attempt to break them.

Seduced by Moonlight is the third book in the adventures of Merry Gentry, the only native-born-American Elven Princess.