Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.
When I watch a movie, I want to be taken away into worlds that are beyond my imagination.
When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.
The joy of great fiction is that it transports the reader to another world, where new characters live in otherwise unimaginable ways. It is one of the most powerful ways of generating empathy that I know.
....Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.
To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.
Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.
I like fantasy.
Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different
Escapism has its place. I used to write 'Conan the Barbarian' for Marvel, which takes place in an environment completely removed from the real world.
The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.
Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.
It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.
