"If you write literary fiction that’s set partly in the future, you’re apparently a sci-fi writer ... I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and the importan..."
- Emily St. John Mandel
"She works on her never-ending project for hours at a time. In art school they talked about day jobs in tones of horror. She never would have imagined that her day job would be the calmest and least cl..."
"She liked books, but the hours spent in small-town libraries were tedious, and she began the first list when she was eight or nine as a means of distraction. A list of names, eventually expanding to t..."
"Of course,” the cabbie said, “you don’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’re going."
"The more we know about the former world, the better we’ll understand what happened when it fell."