You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.
Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for… - Samuel R. Delany
Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for…
- Samuel R. Delany
Endings to be useful must be inconclusive. - Samuel R. Delany
Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman. - Samuel R. Delany
Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman.
Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed. - Samuel R. Delany
Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.
The truth is always multiplex. - Samuel R. Delany
The truth is always multiplex.
Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see ar… - Samuel R. Delany
Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see ar…
I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get us really h… - Samuel R. Delany
I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get us really h…
The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand. - Samuel R. Delany
The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.
It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s. - Samuel R. Delany
It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion