Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
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Paul Di Filippo
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.
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Paul Di Filippo
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
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Paul Di Filippo
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.
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Paul Di Filippo
We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arrive at something that would be far greater and more significant than...
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Clifford D. Simak
More Quotes By Vernor Vinge
Here and there amidst the wreckage, she found advanced devices that more or less still functioned. With one exception, she’d revealed these to Johanna and then to Woodcarver, and–after it was founded–to the Executive Council. Ravna had kept her mouth shut about the surveillance suite;...
He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
