Books Quote by Hal Duncan

“...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“People talk about mainstream fiction and sf as though they were two quite different kinds of writing, and fantasy as well, as though it…

— Angela Carter

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

— Alastair Reynolds

“I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist of an…

— Philip K. Dick

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by…

— Charles Stross

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change.…

— Frederik Pohl

“Writers write; editors make it readable.”

— Val Edward Simone

“There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.”

— Elizabeth Hernandez

“the true protagonist of an sf story or novel is an idea not a person. If it is good sf the idea is new,…

— philik k dick dr. willis McNelly

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more…

— Alan Dean Foster

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does…

— Steven Pressfield

Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and…

— Arthur C. Clarke