Cyrano distills the most radical ideas of his time into a potent literary liqueur.

I marveled repeatedly at the providence of God, who had put these naturally impious people in a place where they could not corrupt his beloved ones and had pun…

Voltaire's philosophical tale 'Micromegas' is also considered a 'classic of early science fiction.' It's very well known and easily accessible, and it's easy t…

His ridiculous and diabolical opinions made me shudder. I began to look a little more closely at this person and was amazed to see something frightening in his…

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for m…

We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres.

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament, especially the book of Job, the Psalms, the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of S…