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“As for me horror is the genre which makes my life more interesting, mysteries my life to be something like a riddle which people go and hard go outside...But the music build my personality!”
“Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.”
“I think genre rules should be porous, if not nonexistent.”
“People don't read anymore. And, when they do, they don't read books like this one, but instead read books that depress them, because those books are seen as important. Somehow, the Librarians have ...”
“I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how...”
“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...”
“Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality were talking now, not factuality but possibility.”
“Soylent Brown? It aint people, but it comes from them.”
“The spelunkers of speculative fiction mining phosphorescent filth from the bowels of the city of New Sodom, the Sci-Fi freaks scraping kipple and back from the bins of decades-old shit sandwiches o...”
“In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesnt matter if youre filthy. In theory anyway.”
“All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.”
“Personally, Id like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if its going to be so overloaded with meanings its just gibberish skewed to self-serving doublet...”
“Fuck, if only aesthetic idiom didnt sound so damn poncy.”
“Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It's about asking an impossible question, "What if...?" and building a story out of the answer.Romance on the other hand, is fundamentally ...”
“Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as som...”
“Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them up in language so compelling that the reader doesn't care.”
“At this point, a few words on this term 'horror' are perhaps called for. Some amateurs of this kind of literature engage in endless hairsplitting disputes, centered around this word and its close c...”
