classic sci-fi quiz now up

The aim of the game is to identify the author and book, or short story (only one) that is quoted…classic sci-fi means no fantasy, and nothing that has not survived the test of time. I want to say that, sadly, Theodore Sturgeon is missing from this list; if anyone ever wants to donate me a copy of his novel “God’s Body”, then please do… Olaf Stapleton is likewise missing….The local libraries no longer seem to have these which leads me to think that we need a campaign to bring back classic speculative literature which is, after all, the literature of ideas….
Also, I couldn’t get my hands or cursor on anything from Marg Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time, or Suzette Hagin Elgin’s Native Tongue, an amazing book revolving around the subject of linguistics and the power vested in the use of language.
In fact, you will find that this list is comprised of the tried and true and probably familiar…

On with the show, this is it…

1. “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own…as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”
2. “Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted!Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted?Skies are blue inside of youThe weather's always fine;ForThere ain't no Bottle in all the worldLike that dear little Bottle of mine”
3. "All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us."
4. “We believe— it is only a theory— that the Overmind Is trying to grow, to extend its powers and its awareness of the universe. By now it must be the sum of many races, and long ago it left the tyranny of matter behind. It is conscious of intelligence, everywhere. When it knew that you were almost ready, it sent us here to do its bidding, to prepare you for the transformation that is now at hand.All the earlier changes your race has known took countless ages. But this is a transformation of the mind, not of the body. By the standards of evolution, it will be cataclysmic— instantaneous. It has already begun.”
5. “Silently Brother Francis untied the package and unwrapped the original blueprint and the illuminated commemoration thereof…The robber’s craggy jaw dropped an inch. He whistled softly. “What a pretty! Now wouldn’t the woman like that to hang on the cabin wall!…What is it, the robber asked, a charm?”…Uh---Transistorized Control System for Unit Six-B,” the monk stammered.”

6. "You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow."
7. “It is not my way to grant you any foreknowledge in these recordings, but it would be safe to indicate that what you have now achieved is merely a new balance---though one in which your position is considerably better. The Spiritual Power, while sufficient to ward off attacks of the Temporal, is not sufficient to attack in return. Because of the invariable growth of the counteracting force known as Regionalism, or Nationalism, the Spiritual Power cannot prevail.”

8. “For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? … Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
9. “He became aware that there was another living creature in the room with him. A granddaddy longlegs was making a futile journey down from the ceiling, spinning as it went. Smith watched it with delight and wondered if it was a nestling form of man.”
10. "Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensations which tells you this is something you've always known.”
11. “Well, then, that is the thing at the top of all bodies---so fast that it is at rest, so truly body that it has ceased being body at all. But we will not talk of that. Start from where we are, Small One. The swiftest thing that touches our senses is light. We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge---the last thing we know before things become too swift for us. But the body of an eldil is a movement swift as light…”

12. “If you find your life tangled up with somebody else’s life for no very logical reasons, that person may be a member of your karass..."
13. “For those stars were no stars at all! They were man-made objects---and very likely they were artifacts of those mysterious Southern ancestors. Perhaps they were even the actual vehicles that had brought those ancestors…in the beginning.”

14. "If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.."

15. "they'd put them in cages, and torment them with maze and electric-shock experiments, and kill a few for dissection, or maybe not bother killing them first. On his own land, if they did anything like that, he could do something about it...I'll have to remind you again, though, that you're to treat these little people with consideration..."