"Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a bad thing."
- Hal Duncan
"I likes me some ‘Shit Blows Up’ fiction, don’t get me wrong."
"See, you have the choice we didn’t. You wanna think about it though, you do, before you decide to throw your lot in with us. Cause it’s not just about living in society’s stitches, you know, the bits ..."
"Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse."
"So, fuck ’em, we say. Fuck the mundane of Mainstream, the elitists of Literature. We’re GENRE FICTION and proud of it, proud to wear that brand painted on the backs of our biker’s jackets."
"–It’s not Sci-Fi, we insist, It’s SF.Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know."
"the crescent sun is high, the moon low; life is not for the faint-hearted; so why the fuck should art be?"
"This is the fiction that I’m referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quilti..."
"– No SF novel ever won the Booker, growls a prowling clansman on his way into the SF Café.The librarian swings a shotgun from inside her longcoat, blasts the bullshit axiom from the air. Screw the Boo..."
"Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we’re talking now, not factuality but possibility."