"Soylent Brown? It ain’t people, but it comes from them."
- Hal Duncan
"The spelunkers of speculative fiction mining phosphorescent filth from the bowels of the city of New Sodom, the Sci-Fi freaks scraping kipple and back from the bins of decades-old shit sandwiches out ..."
"In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn’t matter if you’re filthy. In theory anyway."
"All worlds of fiction are alternative realities."
"Personally, I’d like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if it’s going to be so overloaded with meanings it’s just gibberish skewed to self-serving doublet..."
"Fuck, if only ‘aesthetic idiom’ didn’t sound so damn poncy."
"For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like."
"Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man’s good character is marked by his impeccable attire."
"In that time while he was still aware, which was the worse, I wonder: the agony of his physical torture or the horror of their utter hatred, of their moral certainty that he was so beyond the bounds o..."
"So they watch over us like gods of old. Our patron sinners."