41 Quotes About Sf

...As long as they let me just talk to the kids, about stuff like, I don't know, knife usage, field medicine for beginners. How to make the night sky your ally, with the Big Dipper a place to hang your hat, and Orion your friend to guide you home. That's what I would have wanted to hear, back then...

Governments, nations, borders, they're all surface, they always have been. The real structure underlying it all is money, and the institutions which control it. Finance houses, banks, organised crime; if you drill down deep enough, it's all the same. Money has no nationality, no allegiance. While nations rise and fall, it remains the same. It's the most powerful polity of all.

For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck?

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the goal of a good author- the goal of a Great author- is to make one word worth a thousand pictures.

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.