One of the most important facets of good hard SF is also the easiest to lose sight of.

By this work Aldiss has been given a thorough assessment, and almost all of his work has been found lacking.

Face as a whole doesn’t quite know if it wants to frighten you or fascinate you.

In the children’s minds, the chasm between childhood and adulthood is wide enough that not even the wings would be enough to open the adults’ eyes.

All the authors in this collection advocate for change concerning our environment, a change that they do not hesitate on in their analyses.

If we each have an ability to recognize the expression of beauty that lies in each of us, then through patience and understanding we might exercise it more readily.

Other schema are available.

At its best Girl One is an exciting mystery/thriller, with an underlay of science-fantasy. The novel’s science-fictional aspirations, however, are not as successful or as compelling as its portrayal of the strength of female relationships, be they mother/daughter, friends, “sisters,” or lesbian lovers.

For all the remarked upon “prescience” of most of her novels, Egan’s timeline is ordered and linear, set consummately in the immediate now.

By trying to remake herself without the burden of her familial traumas, Nadia breaks time itself.