Sf Criticism Quotes & Sayings

AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy. Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it trash Tokyo, huh, huh? — Hal Duncan

Science fiction long assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (much to its benefit), while fantasy long since assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (much to my boredom). — Hal Duncan

One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it as a novum. — Hal Duncan

We must make clear that if you come here illegally, you will be sent back home. — Rob Portman

Having a long-term plan--and not casting it aside--is the key to dealing with our fear of loss (loss aversion). — Ori Brafman

Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Writers are a combative bunch when it comes to aesthetics, and the generation before GENRE are born into a discourse that's been brewing since Cervantes. — Hal Duncan

Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of them have been convicted. — Jim Sensenbrenner

In a spectaculist fabrication, the cardinal rule is Shit Blows Up. — Hal Duncan

Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with its profound irrelevance at the human level. — Hal Duncan

Ray Bradbury's entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror. — Hal Duncan

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it. — Francis Ford Coppola

It's America calling the shots in everything — Mikhail Gorbachev

Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?"
I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up. — Richard Paul Evans

To expect that men who do not honorably and intelligently conduct their private affairs will honorably and intelligently conduct the affairs of the community is to be a fool. — Ambrose Bierce

Popular and unpopular don't necessarily map to shit and shinola, of course. — Hal Duncan

Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition. — Jules Simon

Brain out, sponge in' fiction. — Hal Duncan