“«“Looks like your sci-fi prediction came true right away, Xavier.”“That can be gratifying,” mused the novelist. “But not all the time.”»”
“Or maybe go sci-fi. You sorta look like that guy who roamed outer space everybody's so crazy about." "Malcolm Reynolds?" asked Rook.”
“Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science.”
“All that effort,” he mused, “merely to avoid me. How gratifying.”
“In my experience, a lot of the boys who are real computer-heads tend to be pale-skinned sci-fi fans. Not that there’s anything wrong with that—I happen to be a pale-skinned sci-fi fan myself—but that doesn’t mean I have to fancy other seethrough geeks.So let’s hope Adam isn’t as picky as me.”
“Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.”