Always Quote by Paul Di Filippo

“Smellin' the beefaloes and leanpigs turnin' on their spits, holding a cold cheer-beer in my hand, watchin' the stars poppin' out one by one…

— Paul Di Filippo

The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied…

— Paul Di Filippo

The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets,…

— Paul Di Filippo

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous…

— Paul Di Filippo

It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's 'The Birth…

— Paul Di Filippo

Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and touchstones employed…

— Paul Di Filippo

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially…

— Paul Di Filippo

The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war…

— Paul Di Filippo

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

— Paul Di Filippo

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes…

— Paul Di Filippo

The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition.…

— Paul Di Filippo

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

— Paul Di Filippo