Brian Stableford Quotes

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“Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own, in order to investigate by way of pleasurable thought-experiments how things might be done differently.”
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“People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions. Bob Shaw has observed that the deadliest questions usually come as a pair: "Have you published anything?" - loosely translated as: I've never heard of you - and "What name do you write under?" - loosely translatable as: I've definitely never heard of you.”

— Brian Stableford

The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

— Brian Stableford

“Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.”

— Brian Stableford

There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book twice.

— Brian Stableford

“The vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a printed rejection slip can be wrong. You cannot take it for granted that he is wrong, but you have an all-important margin of hope that might be enough to keep you going.”

— Brian Stableford

Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own, in order to investigate by way of pleasurable thought-experiments how things might be done differently.

— Brian Stableford

“Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed”

— Brian Stableford

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