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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 5d

Critical thinking is free.
Sloppy thinking can be very expensive.

Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 8d

Five Sci-Fi Novels That Can Change Your View of Reality

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Five Sci-Fi Novels That Can Change Your View of Reality

Offering much more than entertainment, science fiction novels give you profound insights into some of the most important issues of our time.

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 8d

“Fascist politics thrives on the human frailty that makes our own suffering seem bearable if we know that those we look down upon are being made to suffer more.” —Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 10d

Incompetent, shortsighted, greedy, and power-obsessed government leaders destroying scientific progress while having little to no understanding of what science is and how it benefits everyone. #NASA

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Thousands of NASA employees to bid farewell to the NASA they knew

As October begins, thousands of longtime NASA employees are leaving the agency. 4000+ will exit by January 9, 2026, changing NASA forever.

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 16d

“Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War.” —Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, 2006 novel

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 19d

“But growth was always an illusion, bought only by exploiting other people or the Earth’s irreplaceable resources or burning up our children’s future.” —Stephen Baxter, Manifold: Time, 2000 novel

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 22d

"They stared at their phones and listened to their headpieces and looked through their glasses of augmented reality, and mostly they forgot. Forgot what it meant to be human." —Daniel Arenson, Earth Alone, 2016 novel

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 28d

“Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous."

Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · 29d

Stop letting social media make you stupid.

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Sep 7

Wisdom from The Doctor...

#drwho

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Sep 6

“That’s the curse of intelligence—never being satisfied, always longing for something but not knowing what.” ―Peter Cawdron, Cold Eyes, 2021 novel

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Sep 5

Something my camera saw along the way...

"Do not destroy what you cannot create." ―Leo Szilard

#somethingmycamerasawalongtheway

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Sep 5

Stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope! #JWST #NASA #space #science

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Sep 4

“Strange, isn’t it? Everything you know, your entire civilization, it all begins right here in this little pond of goo. Appropriate somehow, isn’t it?” ― Q (extraterrestrial entity), Star Trek: The Next Generation, “All Good Things…” 1994, written by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Sep 3

The scientifically advanced monkey...

Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Sep 1

Climbing from the cradle...

Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 29

“One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.” ― Ex Machina, 2014 film, written by Alex Garland

#damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes

Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Kol-Ut-Shan, infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Accept difference, respect difference—come in peace.” ― The Autobiography of Mr. Spock, 2021 novel by Una McCormack

#damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 29

Death is harsh...
“It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone.” ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, 2020 novel

Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just another domesticated eukaryote cursed with consciousness...

Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 28

“The stars will never be won by little minds; we must be big as space itself.” —Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star, 1956 novel #sciencefiction #books

Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 26

“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.” ―Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem, 2014 novel

DAMN YOU, ENTROPY!

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 25

"The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." ―Babylon 5, television series, “Survivors,” 1994, written by Marc Scott Zicree

DAMN YOU, ENTROPY! 1,001 OF THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION QUOTES

#sciencefiction #books

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Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 23

Everything new is in an old science-fiction novel…

"It makes me uneasy to see the ignorance in which we run our world."
—George Zebrowski, Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia, 1979 novel
#sciencefictionquotesguyharrisonloves

Guy P. Harrison @guyharrisonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 22

These five novels can expand your mind and change your view of reality.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/abou...

Five Sci-Fi Novels That Can Change Your View of Reality

Offering much more than entertainment, science fiction novels give you profound insights into some of the most important issues of our time.

www.psychologytoday.com