“It was such a change to burst out of the twilight zone suddenly into the panoply of stars and planets. ” — Max Nowaz 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
“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
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
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
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who… — Fred Saberhagen 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
“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 will put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the… — Donovan M. Neal Copy Share Image
“Hades cracked his knuckles on each hand, and the noise was like gunpowder caps exploding in the silence. "First dish duty," he… — Josh Strnad Copy Share Image
“Humanity has been fetishizing the end of the world ever since we invented its beginning. It’s just easier to destroy it than… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“In many ways sci-fi is a natural progression from the magical worlds we inhabited as children. Speculative fiction opens up parallel universes… — Ella Berthoud 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
“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
“I shake my head and rub the bridge of my nose. "There's a whole lot more at stake here than just my… — Kara Swanson Copy Share Image
“Hmph. Even the animals deserted me. I’d have deserted me, too, a different inner voice inserted dryly. The way I banged around… — Ann Gimpel 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
“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
“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
“They’re connected,’ he continued, his voice husky. ‘What one sees, they all see. What one experiences, they all feel. And when one… — Emma Lord 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
“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
“But then one voice arose from the babbling clamor to silence them all. It was a voice he hadn’t heard in a… — 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
“Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity.” — Robert Jackson Bennett 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
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The OPA man, Anderson Dawes, was sitting on a cloth folding chair outside Miller's hole, reading a book. It was a real… — Anonymous 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
“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 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
“I backed out of the kitchen. Griff was a rigid shadow halfway down the hall, his gaze trained on the door at… — Emma Lord 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
