Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.
I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.
The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.
No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.
One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.
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