“So, fuck em, we say. Fuck the mundane of Mainstream, the elitists of Literature. Were GENRE FICTION and proud of it, proud to wear that brand painted on the backs of our bikers jackets.”

“I likes me some Shit Blows Up fiction, dont get me wrong.”

“Its not Sci-Fi, we insist, Its SF.Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know.”

“the crescent sun is high, the moon low; life is not for the faint-hearted; so why the fuck should art be?”

“This is the fiction that Im referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quil...”

“ No SF novel ever won the Booker, growls a prowling clansman on his way into the SF Caf.The librarian swings a shotgun from inside her longcoat, blasts the bullshit axiom from the air. Screw the Bo...”

“And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.”

“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love yo...”

“What Joab did not and could not know was that it was ego, and the ego of a king is just like the ego of anyone else. It is a social infection, entering each person as a psychological virus that is ...”

“Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.”

“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”

“And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.”