{"author":"Stephen Baxter","author_id":"Stephen+Baxter","total_quotes":12,"quotes":[{"text":"I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to the rhythm of Earth's day, Earth's year. I have a vision of a trillion planets pulsing to the beat of a human heart.","author":"Stephen Baxter","tags":["destiny","mankind","stephen-baxter"],"id":1296,"author_id":"Stephen+Baxter"},{"text":"If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours.","author":"Stephen Baxter","tags":["dream"],"id":4972,"author_id":"Stephen+Baxter"},{"text":"A brief life burns brightly.","author":"Stephen Baxter","tags":["life","science-fiction","stephen-baxter","youth"],"id":52283,"author_id":"Stephen+Baxter"},{"text":"Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns.","author":"Stephen Baxter","tags":["future","genre","interview","science-fiction"],"id":83769,"author_id":"Stephen+Baxter"},{"text":"In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.","author":"Stephen Baxter","tags":["doctor-who","tardis","time-and-space","time-travel"],"id":110603,"author_id":"Stephen+Baxter"},{"text":"Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.","author":"Stephen Baxter","tags":["humor","science-fiction"],"id":151182,"author_id":"Stephen+Baxter"},{"text":"Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.","author":"Stephen Baxter","tags":["humans","life"],"id":235551,"author_id":"Stephen+Baxter"},{"text":"A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.","author":"Stephen Baxter","tags":["mind","programming","sentient"],"id":263450,"author_id":"Stephen+Baxter"},{"text":"The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.","author":"Stephen Baxter","tags":["future","past","present","stephen-baxter","time"],"id":301783,"author_id":"Stephen+Baxter"},{"text":"Earth stuff, Mars boy.","author":"Stephen Baxter","tags":["earth","mars"],"id":355041,"author_id":"Stephen+Baxter"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}