137 Quotes About Speculative-fiction

  • Author Sarah Monette
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    When the Director speaks, there is only the faintest harshness in her voice to tell you she is not a flesh-and-blood woman, nor-if the stories whsipered in the Museum are true-ever was.

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  • Author Sarah Monette
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    Visitors come on two legs, on four, on the sweeping sinuosity of scaled legless bodies. There are perches in front of every exhibit for those who come by wing, whethered feathered or mebranous, and the Museum does its best to accomodate those whose habitual method of locomotion is aquatic.

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  • Author Sarah Monette
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    When you are in my dreams, you have a face, and I know that face to be yours, but no matter how true they are, dreams are not real, and I don’t know whether my dreeming mind has ever succeeded in catching your red face.

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  • Author Sarah Monette
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    His smile was unpleasant, the teeth prominent and yellow and wolflike. His smell was musty and sweaty at once, and I gave in and backed up a step.

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  • Author Sarah Monette
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    The hero wasn’t me, any more than the villain was Harry McLauglin, forty-year-old forest ranger and father of two. We were just the matrices that held the pattern, the straw and clay from which myth was built. And now that we are only straw and clay again, the world does not know what to do with us.

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  • Author Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
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    The trouble with colorblind ideologies in text and culture is that by not noticing race, writers and other creatives do the work of encoding it as taboo. While silence and evasion around race in dystopian science fiction is 'understood to be a graceful, even generous, liberal gesture', implying the inevitability of a postracial future, this silence also has the effect of confusing readers.

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