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It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

Every Luke Skywalker needs his Darth Vader.

The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the diss became the standard.

It was as unsatisfying as a handjob from someone wearing an oven mitt.

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.