“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.”

“Losing maturity in ones fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and thats not always a bad thing.”

“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...”

“People described me then as a "socialite," a label I loathe. It cast me in a lurid and ridiculous light, implying a life of privileged frivolity where everyone fits around from one party to the nex...”

“His men had begun gathering the wounded or stunned into a small group some distance back up the slope. Here and there an animal or human stirred, but not many. There were few cries of pain or fear ...”

“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yo...”

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”

“We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arri...”

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”