Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

- Tom Shippey

The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to …

- Tom Shippey

Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after a gap of many …

- Tom Shippey

While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

- Tom Shippey

Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she ha…

- Tom Shippey