Science Fiction Dreamer Gifts

"I have a bad feeling about this."

Inventing Time Travel

Schrodinger's Black Box

'I've decided to switch to science fiction.'

Charles Darwin upon his return from the south seas starts to write about the search for a white whale...and has second thoughts about it.

"So I take it that having your head cryogenically frozen accounts for the thirty-five year gap in employment?"

Shepherd and eurydice

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

'Houston, I'm prepared to land...'

"Have you been on the moon again, young man?"

US Immigration and Naturalization Service: If you're yearning to breath free...Get Out.

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

"We can see through the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and into all those distant stars up there in outer space... truly remarkable, huh, girl?"

Molecular Biology and Cosmology buildings

The Solar System (after deregulation)

An astronaut fishes in volcanoes on another planet.

"You left this on our ship."

The Ferocious Viking Wiener Dog

"Just let her believe in fairies a little while longer."

Bookworm Sleepover

"Good Lord! Life on Mars...adorable life on Mars!"

"Houston - you will Not believe this!"

'It's a note...It says I.O.U. one pot of gold.'

'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'

"Hey Pete, why do you think they call it a 'Supermoon?'"

How we imagined A.I. in 1977. . . How it's looking today. . .

The Demise of Tinkerbell

"Ooh look Derek. A shooting star. Quick make a wish"

Characters jumping out of a book.

'Sometimes George likes to pretend he's an astronaut.'

'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'

Don Quixote

'Oh for heaven's sake, you're a cow. Just eat grass and be happy.'

'Never mind that. I think I've just discovered a new planet!'

"Me, as soon as I'm old enough, I'm out of here! I'll go and join my older brother: he's a beach bum in San Diego, California..."