“All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.” HumansWould BeHuman BeingsMetsTreatmentAfterlifeHereafterPreferential Treatment Book:Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat Source: Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat
“By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion , in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what the afterlife would be. All made guesses, and then established these as articles of faith . Though, in a sense, some were near the mark, if you accept their revelations as symbolic .” IfsMadeFactsWould BeAcceptingMarkAcceptedRevelationsArticlesAfterlifeSymbolic Book:The Magic Labyrinth Source: The Magic Labyrinth
“The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.” WritingReasonStoriesWould BePastTermFictionTruth IsScience FictionTalesFairyRaysFairy TaleParablesTroutGenericBradburyFiction Stories Author:Philip Jose Farmer
