Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe. — Paul Di Filippo Being crazy Copy Share Image
“It was as unsatisfying as a handjob from someone wearing an oven mitt.” — Paul Di Filippo Science fiction Copy Share Image
The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate? — Paul Di Filippo Clock Copy Share Image
It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo About Copy Share Image
Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from… — Paul Di Filippo Ancestors Copy Share Image
More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind,… — Paul Di Filippo Because Copy Share Image
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy… — Paul Di Filippo Asking Copy Share Image
The juggernaut that is steampunk, like Dr. Loveless's giant mechanical spider in the 1999 film version of 'The Wild, Wild West,' seems… — Paul Di Filippo Capable Copy Share Image
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale. — Paul Di Filippo Beast 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 Cyberpunk Copy Share Image
The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the… — Paul Di Filippo Badge Copy Share Image
I think humanity is not wise enough to know what genotype or somatype is going to be the most successful or the… — Paul Di Filippo Because Copy Share Image
The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod,… — Paul Di Filippo Ability 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 Crowded Copy Share Image
We've come a long way since 'Beowulf.' In the twentieth century, a strain in children's and YA literature offered the humorously conceived… — Paul Di Filippo Century Copy Share Image
Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers… — Paul Di Filippo Anthropology Copy Share Image
The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and… — Paul Di Filippo Authors Copy Share Image
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent,… — Paul Di Filippo Any Copy Share Image
Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where… — Paul Di Filippo Address Copy Share Image
Some acts of worldbuilding in fiction instantiate a milieu that is so culturally odd and exotic, so displaced from the audience's consensus… — Paul Di Filippo Acts Copy Share Image
“Smellin' the beefaloes and leanpigs turnin' on their spits, holding a cold cheer-beer in my hand, watchin' the stars poppin' out one… — Paul Di Filippo Happiness Copy Share Image
Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended to younger… — Paul Di Filippo Adjective Copy Share Image
Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved… — Paul Di Filippo Accelerate Copy Share Image
Sure, theories of humor discern a few broad invariants: incongruity, misattribution, etc. But whereas I might find a blind date gone horribly… — Paul Di Filippo Blind Copy Share Image
What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo Able Copy Share Image
“Gaia giveth even as she taketh away. The warming of the global climate over the past century had melted permafrost and glaciers,… — Paul Di Filippo Cape cod Copy Share Image
The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B.… — Paul Di Filippo Air Copy Share Image
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo Books Copy Share Image
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. — Paul Di Filippo Dispassionate Copy Share Image
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be… — Paul Di Filippo Books Copy Share Image
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod… — Paul Di Filippo Advertisement Copy Share Image
The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same… — Paul Di Filippo Advent Copy Share Image
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that… — Paul Di Filippo Attempt Copy Share Image
Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from… — Paul Di Filippo Apart 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 Any Copy Share Image
Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered… — Paul Di Filippo Altered Copy Share Image
It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction… — Paul Di Filippo Beyond Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, by the time a subculture such as steampunk secures the attention of major media, resulting in extensive coverage of the… — Paul Di Filippo Attention Copy Share Image
The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying,… — Paul Di Filippo About Copy Share Image
