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A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their children enjoyed my books but of course they never ...more

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Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is going on, what people actually do ...more

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While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most ...more

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If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.

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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, ...more

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The only social change presented by most SF has been towards authoritarianism, the domination of ignorant masses by a powerful elite—sometimes present...more

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Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.

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[H.G. Wells said] that his method was "to trick his reader into an unwary concession to some plausible assumption and get on with his story while the ...more

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Why is it that if you say you don’t enjoy using an e-reader, or that you aren’t going to get one till the technology is mature, you get reported as “l...more

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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of wha...more

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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Fin...more

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I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know also that by that partiality, that distancing fr...more

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Was he leaving home, or going home?

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To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.

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Fish and visitors stink after three days.