“First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.” — Ryan Sean O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can’t have just the one.” — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
“If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.” — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it odd that the same ratio that generates infinity also generates self-similarity?” — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“Once created, thoughts don’t just vanish into thin air. They can’t. They need a place to go. And so, those thoughts come… — Samantha Sotto Yambao Copy Share Image
“I am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen's eternal river.” — Eugie Foster Copy Share Image
“I mean, that was the code, wasn’t it? Single girls and taken guys weren’t allowed to be friends. The leash always got… — Carrie Butler Copy Share Image
“The only one everlasting love is the unrealized one. The love to this thing that you’d never had. Behind it is hidden… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Funny, they made this new genre called Speculative Fiction, I thought all fiction had always been speculative.” — Teri Louise Kelly Copy Share Image
“Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.” — Laura Resnick Copy Share Image
“Henry rubbed his balding head and yawned. “Why do I think this is worth the risk?…Because I think Betty knew this would… — T.C. Avey Copy Share Image
“Even in forgetting there is an aspect of recollection, a faded few moments of wispy consciousness clung like webs in high-vaulted chambers,… — Jeffrey Panzer Copy Share Image
“Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The whole world's a ghost factory. We all fade like the paint on these buildings, sometimes from too much sun, sometimes from… — Will Ludwigsen Copy Share Image
“And the minibar in my hotel room was mysteriously emptied." "By arcane forces beyond the understanding of normal human beings?" asked Myfanwy… — Daniel O'Malley Copy Share Image
The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the centre of the world or the one country that's going… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Because there wasn’t anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen table with a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it.… — Ann Gimpel Copy Share Image
“She finished cleaning him off and then held her baby boy up high to behold this new wonder in his full glory.… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“She had poofy, teased-out brown hair that bounced off her shoulders with every high-flying skip and on her t-shirt was a spiraled… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“Helen dared to look up without being invited to do so. “I cannot thank you enough for your kindness, Lady Consort.” “Kindness… — Candace L. Talmadge Copy Share Image
“Reading about Bordertown was the first time I saw people like me in speculative fiction. Messed-up kids, making messsed-up choices. I couldn't… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“To my surprise, the sensation of query filled my stomach, spreading through to every corner. This was followed by each point of… — J. Cameron McClain Copy Share Image
“On clear nights, I’d sit out on the porch and gaze up at the stars. So many of them, scrawled across a… — Emma Lord Copy Share Image
“The blast blew a hole in the smack middle of the strange Utopia vision before him and shook the dust out of… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“Quarantine is real s.f. It is speculative fiction whose adventures of the mind are based in our contemporary understanding of what the… — Karen Burnham Copy Share Image
“Sound waves, regardless of their frequency or intensity, can only be detected by the Mole Fly’s acute sense of smell—it is a… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“He shook his head again. “I’m afraid I don’t feel much of anything these days. Especially not hope. I have no time… — Josh Strnad Copy Share Image
“I’ve read science fiction and fantasy all my life – though when you’re a child, they just call that “books.” The first… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The ship had made the jump into hyperspace, so there were no stars or worlds to be seen, just a vortex of… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“Sci-Fi, Space-Travel, Space-Opera, Chance-Encounters, Adventure-Reads, Speculative-Fiction, Book-Quotes” — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“[sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.” — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
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