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James Nicoll Quotes (1961-)
About James Nicoll
James Davis Nicoll (born March 18, 1961) is a Canadian freelance game and speculative fiction reviewer, former role-playing game store owner, and also works as a first reader for the Science Fiction Book Club.
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“After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.”
“Alas, time and head injuries are stealing all my memories.”
“My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.”
“I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.”
“It takes a courageous Mormon to turn to archaeology to support their argument”
“You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.”
“Creating stars in laboratories on the very planets you inhabit turns out to be a bad idea.”
“It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.”
“Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.”
“The one job that machines cannot do is be a cruel plutocrat. That's why humans are still needed.”
“I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky.”
“There are no diplomatic efforts that cannot be successfully undermined by a few bigots in the field.”
“Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.”
“I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.”
“The number of times I have been declared dead is statistically insignificant,although admittedly non-zero.”
“Before it exploded one night, I went to a four grade, two room schoolhouse and we had textbooks from the 1940s.”
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James Nicoll on Cats
“[My cat] Nameless and I have an agreement: I leave her alone and don't make sudden moves when I wake up to find her perched on my chest, staring with an unblinking hostile gaze at my face and in return she rarely mutilates me.”
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James Nicoll on Stephen Baxter 2 quotes
“[F]olks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid [nitrogen] and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.”
James Nicoll on Hal Clement
“[Clement] could imagine very alien worlds, but he could never imagine a protagonist who was not reasonably bright and open to logical persuasion.”
James Nicoll on Isaac Asimov
“Asimov was the sort of urbanophile who, if you dragged him out of New York to some backwater like Greensboro, NC, would probably crumble to dust to reform somewhere near Times Square.”
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Del Cotter on James Nicoll
“Nah, that's just the morphic field of the local environment compensating for a Nicoll Event. Do you recall having a mishap just before any of these sightings?”
Ryk "Sea Wasp" Spoor on James Nicoll
“The point is that there isn't a canonical James Nicoll tale. The point is that whenever a discussion turns to some manner in which a human being can be menaced, injured, or potentially killed, it will turn out that James has already had it happen to him. No matter how funny, unlikely, wierd (sic)), or pedestrian. He hasn't said he has a scar on his arm from being attacked by aliens with laser swords, but I would be only mildly surprised if he did. And I'd believe him.”
About James Nicoll
James Davis Nicoll (born March 18, 1961) is a Canadian freelance game and speculative fiction reviewer, former role-playing game store owner, and also works as a first reader for the Science Fiction Book Club.