“ The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, m… Paul Di Filippo
“ Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers began trying to imagine human existe… Paul Di Filippo
“ Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in th… Paul Di Filippo
“ Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'G… Paul Di Filippo
“ Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude comedy, beca… Paul Di Filippo
“ It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut… Paul Di Filippo
“ Gaia giveth even as she taketh away.The warming of the global climate over the past century had melted permafrost and glaciers, shifted rainfall patterns, altered animal migratory routes, disrupted ag… Paul Di Filippo
“ That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding. Paul Di Filippo
“ The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. Paul Di Filippo
“ What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with t… Paul Di Filippo
“ 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. Paul Di Filippo
