It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing. I don’t think the novels of Jane Austen could have been written by a man nor the stories of Ernest Hemingway by a woman, and in the same way I believe the author of the James Tiptree stories is male.
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more. - Robert Silverberg
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.
- Robert Silverberg
Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world. - Robert Silverberg
Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.
Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it. - Robert Silverberg
Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.
Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting. - Robert Silverberg
Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.
When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment. - Robert Silverberg
When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.
Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present. - Robert Silverberg
Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.
We are born by accident into a purely random universe. - Robert Silverberg
We are born by accident into a purely random universe.
The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely arg… - Robert Silverberg
The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely arg…
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. - Robert Silverberg
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
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