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 R. Curtis Venture
Sometimes the most effective idea was just so simple that nobody could slow down their brain enough to think it up.
Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.
An infinitely unpleasant fraction of a second is a small price to pay for the opportunity to stride across eternity.
