Sf Criticism Quotes

#1. All truth is simple ... is that not doubly a lie?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. The handwriting was a girl's. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive.

David Levithan

#3. Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with its profound irrelevance at the human level.

Hal Duncan

#4. And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action.

Ralph Ellison

#5. presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of the contract. I

Bram Stoker

#6. AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy. Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it trash Tokyo, huh, huh?

Hal Duncan

#7. Ray Bradbury's entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

Hal Duncan

#8. Hey!" I said, indignation filling me. "I'm immortal! Doesn't that mean I won't get saggy boobs and gray hair? Because if it doesn't mean that, I want a refund -

Katie MacAlister

#9. One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it as a novum.

Hal Duncan

#10. It will be well with you, if you do good.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. What if every creative idea that someone has is unconsciously borrowed from that person's experiences in another reality? Maybe all ideas are plagiarized without us knowing it, because they come to us through some cryptic and unprovable reality slippage?

Elan Mastai

#12. In a spectaculist fabrication, the cardinal rule is Shit Blows Up.

Hal Duncan

#13. Popular and unpopular don't necessarily map to shit and shinola, of course.

Hal Duncan

#14. I'm Clara Lord. I own Bloodline's Tattoo Parlor, have a filthy mouth, no filter, and a really strong

K. Larsen

#15. I have learned compassion and to show love for everyone, because of what I have been through. I have also found out how strong I can be, both with God and for him. God lives inside of me and that's the only reason I am still here today.

Stephanie Carpenter

#16. Writers are a combative bunch when it comes to aesthetics, and the generation before GENRE are born into a discourse that's been brewing since Cervantes.

Hal Duncan

#17. Brain out, sponge in' fiction.

Hal Duncan

#18. It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

Saint Augustine

#19. Science fiction long assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (much to its benefit), while fantasy long since assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (much to my boredom).

Hal Duncan