"Quite often, intent on conveying how things can……" — Paul Di Filippo
"Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude comedy, because humor gets in the way of messages of doom or struggle."
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35 Quotes by Paul Di Filippo
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The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
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That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would…
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What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able…
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The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
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Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
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As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will…
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Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended…
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The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
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Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned…
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Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his…
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The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I…
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The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to…
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