Europe Quote by Charles Stross

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any…

— Stanley Schmidt

SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun.…

— M. John Harrison

The environment of San Francisco has so much history to it that I really appreciate. Musically, socially, and culturally. There's this new culture of…

— GRiZ

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

— Jack L. Chalker

The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me,…

— William Gibson

San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world - one of the really urbane communities in the United States -…

— Duke Ellington

I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.

— Sarah Zettel

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it…

— Frederik Pohl

To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and…

— Gardner Dozois

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history

— Gavin Newsom

California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its…

— J. B. Priestley

“San Francisco’s battles are no longer with itself but with the outside world, as it exports the European-style social ideas that drive Republican leaders…

— David Talbot