"In such a universe as this what significance could there be in our fortuitous, our frail, our evanescent community?" (Olaf Stapledon, "Star Maker", 1937)
"A man is morally responsible to his community. That’s a good idea. But his community is also morally responsible to him." (Philip K Dick, "The Man Who Japed", 1956)
"We spread among the community and we became a part of them, sharing in their consciousness and directing them in their total integration. [. . .] They had integrated their group personality on a level that we could perceive and understand. This is the natural evolution of men and truly their one salvation in the total hostile universe." (Thomas N. Scortia, "The Armageddon Tapes - Tape 1", 1974)
"Part of human life is the need to reassure ourselves about the future that we may never live to see, rather than fool ourselves, as many did in the last century, that there won’t be any future and they might as well lie down and die." (George Zebrowski, "Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia", 1979)"Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger." (James Gunn, "Road to Science Fiction" Vol. 2, 1979)
"Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger." (James Gunn, "Road to Science Fiction" Vol. 2, 1979)
"I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not 'true' because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself." (Orson Scott Card, "Ender’s Game", [introduction] 1985)
"Species at this stage of their development tend to be territorial, Memory reminded Drill. Their political mentality is based around the concept of borders. The idea of a borderless community of species may be perceived as a threat." (Walter J Williams, "Dinosaurs", 1987)
"Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization, not just download data into student skulls, and the values of the academic community are strongly at odds with those of all would-be information empires. Teachers at all levels, from kindergarten up, have proven to be shameless and persistent software and data pirates. Universities do not merely ‘'leak information' but vigorously broadcast free thought." (Bruce Sterling, "The Hacker Crackdown", 1992)
"Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey." (Orson Scott Card, "How Software Companies Die", Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, 1995)
"Here is the truth. What human life is, what it’s for, what we do, is create communities." (Orson Scott Card, "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus", 1996)
"Human evolution is driven by community needs […]. How is that possible, since genetic information is passed only by and to individuals?" (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"Most human communities demand anti-survival behavior from large numbers of their members." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"That would be true […] and indeed is true in the main, except that there are only a few types of human communities that actually survive long enough to improve the chances of individual survival." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
"There are community traits that promote survival of the individual, and individual traits that promote the survival of the community." (Orson Scott Card, "First Meetings in Ender's Universe", 2002)
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