The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never… — John Sladek Copy Share Image
“But what if things aren’t what they seem? As you said, there is no truth in the Digital Sea.” “Eventually we must… — Thomas Carpenter Copy Share Image
Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“How can so many (white, male) writers narratively justify restricting the agency of their female characters on the grounds of sexism =… — Foz Meadows Copy Share Image
Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Branches are generated by any quantum event, right? Even before we had prisms, branches were still splitting off constantly; we just didn’t… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views -… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? ” — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Step up to red alert." Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb." - Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf” — Rob Grant; Grant Naylor Copy Share Image
It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does… — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
“It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Answer me immediately or I'll start cutting away everything that's pretty on you...and then put it back.” — Richard Finney Copy Share Image
“A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and… — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
