Aliens Quote by Gregory Benford

Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.

— Gregory Benford

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

— Samuel R. Delany

As an SF writer, you've got the infinite toolkit of the writer at your disposal.

— Alastair Reynolds

“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

— Philip K. Dick

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

“If the weakness of mainstream fiction is its deliberate smallness, the weakness of sf is its puffed-up size, its gauzy immensities. SF often pays…

— John Kessel

What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.

— Edward M. Lerner

“HARD SF and EPIC FANTASY – both of these forms have been conventionalised, proscribed and prescribed, such that they constitute valid GENRES in a…

— Hal Duncan

I don't like a lot of what's published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap.

— Alastair Reynolds

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

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

— Edward M. Lerner

I had - and continued to have - great fun exploring the Revelation Space universe, but it was always clear to me that I…

— Alastair Reynolds

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

— Glenn Danzig

It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's a pretty…

— Michael Bierut

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

— Edmund Spenser