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Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary no...more

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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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In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it.

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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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What is fantasy? On one level, of course, it is a game: a pure pretense with no ulterior motive whatever. It is one child saying to another child, “Le...more

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So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was." -Haw...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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I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is he'll be much godlier after he's dead.

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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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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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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of th...more

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The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters wer...more

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Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry.""Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind.