It’s time again to share some of our favorite (new or old) quotes from speculative fiction.
They can be deep, poignant, witty, hilarious, or otherwise memorable.
You can choose quotes from books you’ve read, or from interviews or blog posts from the authors who write those books. SFF films and shows are fine, too.
Give us the quote and the source (book or film title, link to interview or blog, etc).
Here are a few of the fantastic quotes that readers mentioned last time we did this.
September 9th, 2021. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 11 comments |
It’s time again to share some of our favorite (new or old) quotes from speculative fiction. They can be deep, poignant, witty, hilarious, or otherwise memorable.
You can choose quotes from books you’ve read, or from interviews or blog posts from the authors who write those books.
Give us the quote and the source (book title, link to interview or blog, etc).
Here are quotes that readers mentioned last time we did this. Two are from Guy Gavriel Kay! Click the book cover to read our review.
The deeds of men,
September 14th, 2017. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 12 comments |
It’s been nearly 5 years since we last shared some of our favorite quotes from speculative fiction, though I think at the time we were considering collecting quotes and making this a regular column. Let’s try it again. Share some of your favorite quotes from the books you’ve read, or from interviews or blog posts from the authors who write those books. Give us the quote and the source (book title, link to interview or blog, etc).
Here are a few quotes that readers mentioned last time we did this:
Consistency is the defense of a small mind.
March 10th, 2016. Kelly Lasiter | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 4 comments |
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them” ~Mark Twain
I love quotes. I love gaining a quick and clever insight about life from someone smarter than me. Often I find these in Science Fiction and Fantasy novels or from interviews with SFF authors. Here are a few I’ve kept in mind:
“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” ~Gandalf the Grey (The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R.
June 23rd, 2011. Justin Blazier | Thoughtful Thursday | 10 comments |
This week’s word for Wednesday is digirati, a plural noun, and something which many of you are: people with expertise and/or professional involvement with information technology. This word came into use in the USA in the 1990s. Sadly, as much as I want it to, it does not rhyme with glitterati, which means glamorous or fashionable people usually in show business.
Books and Writing
Was Hercules the first superhero? Tor.com discusses the myth.
Also at Tor.com, a column about J.K. Rowling’s “North American History of Magic.” People are not happy with what they are seeing at Pottermore,
March 16th, 2016. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | 7 comments |
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
Justin Cronin burst onto the big scene with his apocalyptic vampire doorstopper The Passage (first of a trilogy), a fantastically harrowing blockbuster of a novel that still maintained amidst its action/thriller/horror aspects the quietly intimate elements of his earlier literary novels. His newest, The Ferryman, while not quite as strong and despite having a few more noticeable issues, shares some of the same strengths that made The Passage so successful, as I imagine this one will be.
The story takes place on an archipelago isolated from the rest of the world by something known as The Veil,
May 11th, 2023. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Justin Cronin | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
The Joy Makers by James Gunn
Shortly before being taken over by Random House in 1988, Crown Publishers had a wonderful thing going with its Classics of Modern Science Fiction series; a nicely curated group of books in cute little hardcover volumes that the imprint released during the mid-‘80s. Previously, I had enjoyed (and, in some cases, written about here) such terrific titles in this series as Charles L. Harness’ The Paradox Men (1953), Murray Leinster’s The Forgotten Planet (1954),
April 20th, 2023. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4.5 | James Gunn | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Dune directed by Denis Villeneuve
It’s been many a year since I’ve read Frank Herbert’s Dune, so I can’t say with any authority where in the book Denis Villeneuve ends his film version, but I do feel comfortable saying it was too far. Because even at roughly 2 ½ hours, Dune the movie is too short to do justice to Dune the book. In fact, as that became more and more evident, I found myself thinking even more frequently that if Peter Jackson could get three movies out of The Hobbit (ignoring that he really didn’t),
November 3rd, 2021. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Frank Herbert | Film / TV | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley
THE RADIO MAN trilogy, by Massachusetts-born author Ralph Milne Farley, was a series that I discovered quite by accident. I had heard of neither the three novels nor their author before finding the first book, The Radio Man (1924), in a highly collectible 1950 Avon paperback edition, at the Greenwich Village Antiquarian Book Fair a few years back. This first novel introduced readers to radio engineer Myles Cabot, who had accidentally transported himself to the planet Venus and helped the winged and antenna-sporting Cupian humanoids there to overthrow their antlike Formian oppressors.
August 6th, 2020. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | Ralph Milne Farley | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
For all those folks out there who hold conversations with their pet dog and know for certain that Fido/Fifi understands every word; for those who have gotten a tad “verklempt” at the conclusion of such novels as The Call of the Wild and Old Yeller; for people who believe that canines just cannot get any smarter than Lassie, Rin Tin Tin or Benji, all of whom starred in innumerable motion pictures; and, well, really, for anybody with a soft spot in his or her heart for man’s best friend,
July 13th, 2020. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Olaf Stapledon | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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