Areas Quote by Stanley Schmidt

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

— Alan Dean Foster

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set…

— Charles Stross

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one…

— Larry Niven

Practically all SF is trash.

— Stanislaw Lem

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

— Sarah Zettel

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

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

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

San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of…

— Les Claypool

I love San Francisco more than any other city outside of Seattle, but I've seen it go from a vibrant, creative community to a…

— Ben Gibbard

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

— Gavin Newsom

The good thing about being in San Francisco is it's a city that seems to have the flexibility and undefined boundaries.

— Janet Varney