Quote – Entropy
“But nothing is ever really fixed. Michael’s father once told him about entropy and he never forgot. Something that depressing is hard to forget. Everything is eroding; people slow it down by fixing...
View ArticleQuote – Stories Have Quests and They Answer Questions
“Story doesn’t mean fiction – it just indicates form. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end. It has tension and struggle and resolution. Stories have quests and they answer questions. They can be...
View ArticleQuote – SF to Confirm People’s Complacency
“I see the ways in which science fiction is too often used to confirm people’s complacency, to reassure them that it’s okay for them not to act, because they are not the lone superhero who will fix the...
View ArticleQuote – Life Huants Ghosts
“Life haunts us, us ghosts. It hovers just out of reach, taunting.” -Nalo Hopkinson, Old Habits (in Falling in Love with Hominids: Tacyon Publications, Forthcoming 2015)Filed under: Quotes Tagged:...
View ArticleQuote – Every Shell is a Life Journal
“Every shell is a life journal, made out if the very substance of its creator, and left as a record of what it thought, even if we can’t understand exactly what it thought. Sometimes interpretation is...
View ArticleQuote – Fairy Tales Prepared Us For If We Wandered Into Their Land
“I’m not sure, to be honest. I think the tales we grew up on served to both warn us of bad faeries, but also prepare us to accept their magic and wonder, in case we ever wandered to their land. Or were...
View ArticleQuote – Tragedy as Columns of Type
“Inevitable? In hindsight tragedy always appears so. Somehow the concept of unavoidable destiny offers comfort to uniformed readers, those to whom tragedy is nothing more than oderly columns of black...
View ArticleQuote – Wolves and Indigestion
“The way through the forest is walked by shapeshifters and wolves who suffer from indigestion, having eaten too many grandmothers.” -Sandra Kasturi – Chaos Theory (in The Animal Bridegroom)Filed under:...
View ArticleQuote – You Might Not Get Everything I Say
“You might not get everything I say. But that doesn’t mean the story’s not there to understand. Can you listen before you hear?” -Hiromi Goto – Chorus of Mushrooms (NeWest Press, 1994)Filed under:...
View ArticleQuote – People and Land Belonging to Each Other
“The innumerable spirits of creation – from the leaf-headed standing people and the lichen-spotted stone people, to the furred four-leggeds and the feathered ones who danced on wind and breeze – were...
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